very model
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While increased regulation will help, he says transparency poses a bigger challenge: "Transparency goes against the very model of discretion that allows many wealth management hubs to thrive."
From BBC • Apr. 12, 2024
She manages to land a job as assistant to a literary agent named Edith Safer, “of the old school,” the very model of an éminence grise.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 13, 2023
Styles is known for a buzzing and energetic live presence — a very model of aerobic endurance — who commands a stage alongside his band.
From Salon • Dec. 26, 2022
Driver, paunchy and swaybacked, is the very model of a modern middle-aged professor, his intellectual curiosity muffled by a certain complacency.
From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2022
Professor Z. K. Matthews was the very model of the African intellectual.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
