Definitions

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  • adjective resembling sculpture.

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of model.

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  • adjective resembling sculpture

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Examples

  • His solution is "leaderless resistance," which he describes as modeled after "committees of correspondence" that existed throughout the thirteen colonies during the American Revolution.

    Counterterrorism Blog Madeleine Gruen 2010

  • For instance, the XI sock uses the signature sideways text, and the VI uses a label modeled after the lace lock.

    NiceKicks.com - Online Magazine for sneaker news, history, & culture 2009

  • After days of keeping her SCRAM bracelet hidden under a collection of boots, Lindsay once again modeled it off during a workout on the treadmill.

    Pink is the New Blog | Everybody's Business Is My Business » Blog Archive » Lindsay Lohan Hides, Works Out, SCRAMs 2010

  • That simpler forecasting models often beat complex ones, independent of the process being modeled, is standard knowledge in the forecasting community.

    Climate Bet Details, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Byron's companion Dr. John Poldori created an irresistible but evil gentleman Vampyre that season, who was obviously modeled from the amoral peer in Poldori's Gothic novel of the same name -- the same literary archetype who re-emerged as Count Dracula and Lestat de Lioncourt.

    View from the Northern Border Michael Evans 2006

  • "It couldn't," remarks a tiresome, facetious doctor, far more anxious to be funny than to sympathized with the child, "it was the purest Grecian, modeled from the Elgin marbles."

    The Art of the Story-Teller 1915

  • A tiny wall fountain modeled in classic pattern, for us penetrates into the world of the past, but for the Italian immigrant it may defy distance and barriers as he dimly responds to that typical beauty in which Italy has ever written its message, even as classic art knew no region of the gods which was not also sensuous, and as the art of Dante mysteriously blended the material and the spiritual.

    Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes 1910

  • Rock Band during last week was the suggestion, made by sites like Billboard and Ultimate Guitar, that Harmonix might be ready to create a Rock Band title modeled on the career of guitar legend Jimi Hendrix.

    Softpedia - Windows - All Andrei Dumitrescu 2010

  • Rock Band during last week was the suggestion, made by sites like Billboard and Ultimate Guitar, that Harmonix might be ready to create a Rock Band title modeled on the career of guitar legend Jimi Hendrix.

    Softpedia - Windows - All Andrei Dumitrescu 2010

  • Wikipedia defines Pax Americana (term modeled on the Pax Romana of the Roman Empire) as the period of relative peace in the Western world since the conclusion of WWII in 1945, coinciding with the dominant military and economic position of the United States.

    Serbianna.com 2009

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