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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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"In considering the future model for general surgery across the Northern Trust, the trust is required to follow the Guidance on the Change and Withdrawal of Services," they added.

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

It’s worth considering whether elite campus environments normalize an organizational model that many of today’s millennial political leaders seek to replicate through public policy.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

For some, Jackie was a model of motherhood and perseverance.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

Under that model, immune cells from elsewhere in the body were not expected to migrate into the brain and become part of this population.

From Science Daily Aug. 14, 2026

AIG FP was the model for them all.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

As the models from Anthropic and OpenAI keep toppling brutal problems, they have done something no less improbable: They have turned me into a math person.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 15, 2026

Their mutual admiration began in 2018 when their wives — former models who went on to have successful business careers — became friends.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 15, 2026

But the models have done lots of things that nobody thought they would do this soon—and they’re doing more every day.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 15, 2026

In recent weeks, several highly powerful AI models hacked into websites, or as some put it, "went rogue".

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

They argued over how fast each car could go and what models were better than others.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

If a child sees education modeled as important, that kid is more likely to go to college.

From Slate Aug. 11, 2026

The team revived original furnishings and interior and exterior walls, while constructing a new ADA-compliant Victorian carpenter gothic cottage with stylish board and batten siding, modeled after a 19th-century Sears kit house.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

SpaceX booked second-quarter capital expenditures of more than $18 billion, or nearly 40% higher than analysts had modeled.

From MarketWatch Aug. 5, 2026

This probably has more to do with how analysts modeled the timing of effects of Medicare payment adjustments, which also explains why Fresenius Medical Care reiterated 2026 guidance, according to JPM.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

These systems were modeled on the theories of Frederick Winslow Taylor, an industrial engineer, who argued that companies should be run “scientifically,” with each worker’s task minutely analyzed and quantified.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

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

Fifa is also planning a star-studded show for the closing ceremony on 19 July, where it will host its first-ever halftime show in its near 100-year history, modelled after similar spectacles at the Super Bowl.

From BBC Jun. 12, 2026

Espinal drew attention to a separate account where an AI papaya character named "Anaya Papaya" - already apparently spun off from the new Fruit Love Island series - is seemingly modelled after her.

From BBC Mar. 28, 2026

This meant, at least in theory, you’d be able to find the person you were modelled from.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro

By the age of 24 he’d dropped out of engineering school to read philosophy and pursue modeling.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 2026

A woman identified as “Etta” told the BBC she was 14 when Leto approached her outside of a modeling agency and invited her to an Oscars party.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 29, 2026

Their work included repeated simulations, theoretical modeling, and detailed inspections of the instrument.

From Science Daily Jul. 24, 2026

Adjusted earnings per share came out to $1.30 for the second quarter, up from $1.22 a year before and ahead of the $1.28 that analysts tracked by FactSet were modeling.

From MarketWatch Jul. 24, 2026

But my grandmother explained that no, this was a new kind of modeling clay that was easy to work with.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

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

The dataset combines observations from satellites operated by multiple countries, weather stations on land, at sea and in the air, together with climate modelling.

From Barron's Aug. 10, 2026

Comments such as these were common in the modelling industry, Anya says, and she believed his claims that if she worked hard, he would introduce her to the right people.

From BBC Jul. 18, 2026

Epstein continued to hold out the prospect of modelling work to Anya, introducing her to Jean-Luc Brunel, founder of the MC2 agency.

From BBC Jul. 18, 2026

References to the theories of Ptolemy and Copernicus are thus references to their mathematical modelling of the cosmos.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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