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With high-worn velvet shorts and pulled up socks, Azeez is a throwback fighter who has modelled himself on his boxing hero and middleweight great Marvin Hagler.

From BBC • Feb. 3, 2024

The BBC understands the Treasury has modelled scenarios including crude oil prices rising to more than $10 a barrel and a 25% increase in natural gas.

From BBC • Jan. 11, 2024

The World Trade Organization and others see a risk that commerce splinters into hostile trading blocs, a scenario the IMF has modelled as shaving as much as 7% off global output.

From Reuters • Feb. 10, 2023

Dover has modelled the impact of a return of passenger cars to the port, and Bannister said there would be challenges if it happened quickly.

From Reuters • Jul. 9, 2021

She has modelled the wave-slicing clipper which outsails all your argosies and armadas.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 by Various