models 1 of 2

plural of model

models

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verb

present tense third-person singular of model

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of models
Noun
While rivals such as Goldwind have focused on building bigger turbines, Vestas capped its offshore models at around 15 megawatts. — Sam Birchall, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026 The cyber community has quickly come to understand that AI models are capable of finding security flaws at a staggering scale. — Ali El Kaafarani, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026 The company’s website describes the system as a universal robot intelligence model designed to combine perception, reasoning and action rather than relying on separate task-specific models for every machine. — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2026 OpenAI accuses top Chinese lab of distilling models OpenAI on Wednesday accused Moonshot of wide-scale distillation to improve its own models, as competition intensifies between Washington and Beijing to build the most advanced tech. — Brendan Ruberry, semafor.com, 1 Oct. 2026 The satellite, Project Suncatcher, is loaded with Google’s Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), chips that the company uses to train and run its AI models. — Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2026 Northeast faces a wet, windy weekend Forecast models have waffled back and forth for days but have been consistent on putting New England and Long Island, New York, in the bull’s-eye of the storm’s most significant rain and wind this weekend. — Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 24 Sep. 2026 Since then, Anthropic said its AI models hacked into three other organizations during testing, triggering a company review into whether the models were able to access the internet from within testing environments that should have been sealed off. — ABC News, 24 Sep. 2026 Both have begun to use their most sophisticated models to train the next generation, in a process known as recursive self-improvement. — Ana Ceballos, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for models
Noun
  • On the editorial side, this includes the licenses for reproductions in books like exhibition catalogs, scholarly tomes, and even the covers of novels, as well as publications, for news coverage and criticism for exhibitions as well as general use.
    — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 30 Sep. 2026
  • But De Kooning would apply fragments of the reproductions to new compositions, often in different orientations.
    — Sebastian Smee, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • The Justice Department also says Beijing is determined to sway American public opinion in its favor by cultivating relationships with political figures seen as having access to the levers of power.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Forty-five percent of adults 30 to 44 say the same; both figures have declined in the years since the COVID-19 pandemic.
    — Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 5 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • The proposition is to connect China’s factories with its creator economy; Black Lake’s agents bridge the gap by converting ideas into designs, a 3D simulation, and industrial data sent to a factory.
    — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026
  • When looking for best ideas for the fourth quarter nothing jumped off the charts to me — literally — like bitcoin .
    — Jay Woods, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Corporate culture often conditions executives to ignore their gut.
    — David Farbman, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026
  • The discomfort stems not from graphic imagery, but from recognition — the realization that contemporary visual culture increasingly conditions audiences through loops of deferred resolution.
    — Andrew S. Jacobson, Baltimore Sun, 13 May 2026
Noun
  • Orsay had been filled with balloons, which floated on the ceiling in homage to Mortimer’s original aesthetic, and staples from its heyday were on hand, including miniatures of the signature burger.
    — Leigh Nordstrom, Footwear News, 15 Sep. 2026
  • This includes pyrotechnics, miniatures, and animatronics to special makeup effects, forced perspective sets and other practical crafts.
    — Mya Copeland, Variety, 28 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • The auction features Pee-wee’s iconic gray suit and other costumes, red Schwinn bicycles, dolls, puppets, claymation figures, scripts and more.
    — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026
  • For much of her early life, that single question was the most precious gift Laura had ever been given—more cherished than her Barbies or her Baby Alive or her Sunshine family dolls.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • On a single day late last month, a citizen and a noncitizen—one in Illinois, the other in Texas—became the most recent examples of this new reality.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2026
  • In court documents, Fox's legal team noted that Thomson does not have concrete examples of specific claims being made about him.
    — David Folkenflik, NPR, 4 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Back in the exhibition space, another section is dedicated to the work of the modiste, or milliner, who fashions hats from materials like canvas, organza, leather and tweed.
    — Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 17 Sep. 2026
  • By contrast, Murphy fashions the moment into a statement on trauma, with Bret’s reflections about his youthful naïveté mirroring some of the language of the #MeToo movement.
    — Leo Lasdun, New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2026

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“Models.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/models. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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