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The Guardian reported last week that Treasury officials were modelling a potential rise in CGT between a range of 33% to 39%.

From BBC • Oct. 14, 2024

The ceremony was a month away, but she hadn’t sent out invitations or taken any of the commemorative photos other students were modelling for in the middle of campus.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 24, 2018

Spode exclaimed, making with his hand a gesture as though he were modelling a pure form in the air.

From Mortal Coils by Huxley, Aldous

Some of the officers were modelling in clay, others were learning typewriting, one with a drawing-board was studying to be an architect, others were pressing their finger-tips over the raised letters of the Braille alphabet.

From With the French in France and Salonika by Davis, Richard Harding

Our next visit was to a sod-thatched hut, "At the sign of the Ambulant Artisans," where two or three soldiers were modelling and chiselling all kinds of trinkets from the aluminum of enemy shells.

From Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort by Wharton, Edith