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model

[mod-l] / ˈmɒd l /




NOUN
person, thing that poses
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VERB
display, pose
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The principals settled on hosting Collins for a publicity event at Navatek’s Maine headquarters in August 2019, where she posed for pictures with Kao and a model of the company’s experimental boat.

From Salon Sep. 23, 2026

He adds that major parties "do not compete over an alternative model", but rather over how to implement public policies set by a royal vision.

From BBC Sep. 22, 2026

The committee’s recommendations included diversifying funding sources, embracing a range of ideologies and developing a new tuition model.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 22, 2026

Top of mind for investors will be the release date of Meta’s next new model, dubbed “Watermelon.”

From MarketWatch Sep. 22, 2026

Michael T. Wright, curator of mechanical engineering at London’s Science Museum, spent more than twenty years seeking a solution and in 2006 completed building a working model of how he believed the device worked.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler

In the smartphone world, makers of cheap Android-based devices such as China’s Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo have raised prices on some of their cheapest models.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 23, 2026

Those restrictions are scientifically valuable because they eliminate parts of the range in which these theoretical models could operate.

From Science Daily Sep. 23, 2026

The declaration - which has the support of more than 20 countries, including Germany, Canada and Ireland - calls for AI to remain under human control and for mandatory pre-release testing of frontier models.

From BBC Sep. 23, 2026

The Muse agent is built on Meta's own AI models and is designed to compete with OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude.

From Barron's

“I am Ayesha Farooq, and I’m Pakistan’s first female fighter pilot. I scored the highest possible marks on my air force exam, and I say instead of looking up to role models, be one yourself.”

From "Amina's Song" by Hena Khan

Said another way: Fitch modeled a scenario with a 35% drop in AI stocks over six months.

From MarketWatch Sep. 22, 2026

Across the modeled wavelength range of 365-455 nm, the required decadic absorption coefficient reaches about 1,278 cm-1 at 375 nm.

From Science Daily Sep. 13, 2026

Meta's Community Notes is a system modeled on a similar program at Elon Musk's X, allowing users themselves to add context to potentially misleading content.

From Barron's Sep. 10, 2026

For the current quarter, same-store sales are projected to be up 3% to 4%, ahead of the 2.5% gain that Wall Street modeled.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 9, 2026

Free-standing sculpture—that is, sculpture that is carved or modeled fully in the round—is made by either of two methods.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson

Its ruling Communist Party has used five-year plans modelled on those of the former Soviet Union to set its development targets and social priorities since the 1950s.

From Barron's Sep. 16, 2026

Taking into account the world's ageing population, they then modelled how heat will affect the health of three different age ranges by 2100 under varying levels of global warming.

From Barron's Aug. 17, 2026

She is a commentator for outlets within conservative French billionaire Vincent Bollore's media stable, including the CNews television channel, which is seen as modelled on America's Fox News.

From Barron's Aug. 3, 2026

Maher has her own podcast, brand ambassador roles, modelled for Sports Illustrated, and finished as runner-up in the television series Dancing with the Stars.

From BBC Jun. 30, 2026

“The optimum population,” said Mustapha Mond, “is modelled on the iceberg—eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.”

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

It brings together improved modeling with NASA-satellite-validated measurements of snowpack, surface and groundwater storage, soil moisture, and other conditions throughout the Colorado River Basin in a single interactive system.

From Science Daily Sep. 23, 2026

However, publicly available studies on its projects “are non-existent, leaving few anchors on which to pin modeling assumptions.”

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

Ecological modeling also indicated that the new species favors a different type of habitat than similar members of the genus.

From Science Daily Sep. 18, 2026

So far, A.I. boosters have been quick to take credit when their models hit a new benchmark in email-writing or 3D modeling.

From Salon Sep. 12, 2026

Eastern private schools, modeling themselves after elite British institutions like Eton, taught rowing as a gentleman’s sport and fed their young-gentlemen oarsmen into the nation’s most prestigious universities, places like Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

In return, the victims got poor quality digital photographs that stood no real chance of landing them professional jobs and most did not get paid modelling work.

From BBC Sep. 18, 2026

“Our modelling suggests eurozone headline inflation could rise above 3.5% later this year if current energy prices persist,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

The threat that rising temperatures fuelled by climate change pose to the health of older people has been dramatically underestimated, according to a US modelling study published Tuesday.

From Barron's Aug. 17, 2026

Under the modelling, inflation would peak at 4.3% in the first three months of next year.

From BBC Aug. 12, 2026

I remember a time when I could only have been five or six, sitting at a low table beside Amanda C., our hands clammy with modelling clay.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro




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