model
noun
a standard or example for imitation or comparison.
had modelled
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past perfectof model.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Yusuf had earlier told BBC Breakfast that Reform had "modelled a total of £2bn a year for this programme".
From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2026
Last year, the Department for the Economy had modelled increasing fees to about £7,000 a year from the current £4,630 to raise money for the government budget.
From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2024
The U.S. inquiry in particular could prove perilous for Austria, which had modelled itself as a bridge between east and west, turning Vienna into a magnet for Russian money.
From Reuters ● May 23, 2023
Gawker had modelled plenty of schadenfreude throughout its fourteen years of existence—it had done a great deal to shape the prickly, punchy, intimate sensibility of the Internet that gleefully watched it go.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 20, 2016
I had modelled a Charity, but it pleased me so little and seemed so commonplace that I let the clay dry and spoil.
From The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 5 by Émile Zola
