modelling
Britishnoun
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the act or an instance of making a model
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the practice or occupation of a person who models clothes
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a technique in psychotherapy in which the therapist encourages the patient to model his behaviour on his own
Example Sentences
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He says that there hasn't been enough academic research and modelling in the UK on how wildfires behave to make land management changes meaningful.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
“Our modelling suggests eurozone headline inflation could rise above 3.5% later this year if current energy prices persist,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
The threat that rising temperatures fuelled by climate change pose to the health of older people has been dramatically underestimated, according to a US modelling study published Tuesday.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 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
I remember a time when I could only have been five or six, sitting at a low table beside Amanda C., our hands clammy with modelling clay.
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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