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model

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model someone on someone and model something on something
to use something as a pattern for something; to use someone as a pattern for someone. I will model my house on the house we saw in the Mediterranean. She tried to model herself on her mother.

model something in something

to make a model of something in a particular substance. She modeled the figure in clay. I modeled a bear in modeling clay.

be a/the model of something
to be an excellent example of something Claudia, always the model of good taste, looked elegant in a black silk gown.


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