Example Sentences

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On earnings per share, analysts have been modeling $17.43 for the current year.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 30, 2026

I have been modeling since I was a teenager for local businesses and traveling for shoots, on top of jobs I had at everywhere from Raising Cane’s to Ulta to a tanning salon.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2023

Of all people, they should have been modeling what to do for everybody else.

From Seattle Times • May 12, 2022

Scientists have been modeling infectious-disease outbreaks since at least the early 1900s, when the Nobel laureate Ronald Ross used mosquito-reproduction rates and parasite-incubation periods to predict the spread of malaria.

From New York Times • Nov. 22, 2021

And it’s precisely the kind of broad leadership that women, from AOC to Stacey Abrams, have been modeling for years.

From Slate • Mar. 10, 2021