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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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Almost two decades later, she is now a multi-million-pound brand owner, with high-profile clients including tennis icon Serena Williams, model Naomi Campbell and actress Niecey Nash.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Macron admired a prototype all-electric version of Citroën’s 2CV model, a classic of the French company and a fixture of European streets in the postwar era.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

One important test of the model, called Muse Wonder, will be how much it can improve retention and accelerate adoption of Muse, the company’s new personal-assistant agent introduced last month.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

The company’s unique business model and market positioning sets it up for further upside in its shares.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

When she smiled, she looked like a model.

From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty

The Nobel committee said the prize was awarded for “demonstrating how economic models could be reconstructed to revitalise stabilisation policy.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

The new models can soon be used in Meta's new personal agent app, known as Muse, for paid subscribers only.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

According to Meta’s benchmark data, the flagship Muse Wonder Full beats out top OpenAI and Anthropic models on memory retention, financial analysis and long-horizon coding tasks — though rival models maintain advantages in other areas.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026

Chinese automakers may opt to prioritize higher-priced models, which could lead to stiffer competition with premium German brands, they add.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

Nor was there anything new about working with models: Desaguliers was building model steam engines by the 1720s, and he was surely not the first.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Wynne believes the AI-generated voice in a Royal Mail ad was modeled on her father, who narrated BBC programs and Paddington audiobooks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

Chesapeake built a 50-acre, Georgian-style corporate complex modeled after a college campus that it went on to expand, complete with four gourmet restaurants, a 72,000-square-foot gym and a vegetable garden.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

It is one of around 40 similar lawsuits brought by cities, states, tribes and other local jurisdictions, modeled on successful litigation against tobacco and opioid producers.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

The review he asked for is modeled on the Tunney Act, a federal law that governs antitrust settlements proposed by the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

Around it sprang up large, sloppy statues, easily modeled because of the snow’s dampness.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles

Architect William Van Alen modelled the eagle gargoyles on hood ornaments found on the 1929 Chrysler car.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

In one example, Adidas claimed that an online listing from June 2025 showed a pair of White Fox-branded socks being modelled by someone wearing pink Adidas shoes.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

“Our model reaches 151 tons/annum at run rate, 64% of Mt Weld’s modelled 235 tons/annum,” Jefferies says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 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

“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

Mathematical modeling allows scientists to explore complicated biological interactions by representing them through equations and simulations.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

Hooked on acting, she began modeling and making commercials.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

The team also relied heavily on theoretical modeling.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

Cantor Fitzgerald’s Muse is modeling for Micron to generate about $150 billion in free cash flow next year, and about $182 billion in 2028.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

For evening-wear modeling, she makes me walk with an encyclopedia on my head.

From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles

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

He says that there hasn't been enough academic research and modelling in the UK on how wildfires behave to make land management changes meaningful.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 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

Using modelling simulations, they determined the most likely scenario was that the object is powered by a central black hole surrounded by a cocoon of gas that makes it resemble a star.

From Barron's ● 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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