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role model

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someone who another person admires and tries to be like Parents need to be good role models for their children. Athletes should remember that they are role models.

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Recent Examples of role model Quote a Hero Does your child idolize a professional athlete or have a great role model? — Sarah Scott, Parents, 8 Aug. 2026 Seeking a strong and consistent male role model, Withers bonded with Kionte. — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 4 Aug. 2026 Leaders reflect and role model the values of the business and share these with managers, who then embed these values with their teams. — David Morel, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026 Outside of her on-court success, Reese has become one of the faces of the league, and is an entrepreneur, philanthropist and role model for the next generation of female athletes. — Irene Wright, USA Today, 3 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for role model

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One example is United Airlines’ fleet of Boeing 767s, which feature all the carrier’s very latest cabin comfort experiences, but four of which entered service way back in 1991.

— Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2026
Smithsonian’s The Tree Book and Cesar Leonardi and Franca Stagi’s The Architecture of Trees are just a few examples of the literature available on the shelves.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Aug. 2026

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Find out what the bill does when one workflow triples its tool calls after a model upgrade, because that is the scenario that turns a modest platform fee into a line item the CFO wants explained.

— Janakiram MSV, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2026
One researcher involved in model development told the South China Morning Post that his team’s existing training pipelines depend on CUDA, making a hardware switch far from straightforward.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 11 Aug. 2026

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