fashion (something) after (something else)

fashion (something) after (something else)

To use something as the template or model for the way in which something else is created or developed. The mayor's ambitious social security plan is fashioned after a similar system already in place in Sweden. You can fashion your lesson plans after ones from previous teachers. I don't think it's a bad thing to fashion your story structure after the works of Stephen King—man's a genius.

See also: after, fashion

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