as in simulations
a full-sized model of something (such as a boat or a car) that is used for studying, testing, or showing its features
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Recent Examples of mock-ups
It should be noted that in-hand images of the black colorway have yet to surface and pictured here are instead speculative mock-ups of what the pair is expected to look like.
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Riley Jones, Footwear News, 21 Feb. 2026
Landscape architect Rick Parisi also presented mock-ups showing the foliage that will accent the ballroom grounds and the relocation of a fountain on the east edge of the White House campus.
—Arden Farhi, CBS News, 19 Feb. 2026
More about the controversial plans and mock-ups of the coins is in the full story, here.
—Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 27 Jan. 2026
The low-cost mock-ups also allow training planners to field larger, more diverse opposing forces, thereby offering a more complex, unpredictable combat scenario.
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 27 Nov. 2025
Segle began by sketching her dream design, then testing different patterns and doing eight bodice mock-ups with inexpensive fabric before finding the perfect fit.
—Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
In April, leaker Majin Bu shared images of iPhone 17 Air and 17 Pro Max mock-ups, and the difference in thickness is quite significant.
—PC Magazine, 9 Sep. 2025
And some of the stealth UCAV mock-ups rolled out in 2019 did not materialize beyond the models displayed that day.
—Amir Husain, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Riley Jones, Footwear News, 21 Feb. 2026
Landscape architect Rick Parisi also presented mock-ups showing the foliage that will accent the ballroom grounds and the relocation of a fountain on the east edge of the White House campus.
—Arden Farhi, CBS News, 19 Feb. 2026
More about the controversial plans and mock-ups of the coins is in the full story, here.
—Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 27 Jan. 2026
The low-cost mock-ups also allow training planners to field larger, more diverse opposing forces, thereby offering a more complex, unpredictable combat scenario.
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 27 Nov. 2025
Segle began by sketching her dream design, then testing different patterns and doing eight bodice mock-ups with inexpensive fabric before finding the perfect fit.
—Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
In April, leaker Majin Bu shared images of iPhone 17 Air and 17 Pro Max mock-ups, and the difference in thickness is quite significant.
—PC Magazine, 9 Sep. 2025
And some of the stealth UCAV mock-ups rolled out in 2019 did not materialize beyond the models displayed that day.
—Amir Husain, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mock-ups
Noun
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Computer simulations showed this was unlikely.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
22 Feb. 2026
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Until somewhat recently, Shen said, researchers had produced just a few dozen high-quality cloud simulations — not enough to give physicists a comprehensive view of cloud behavior, and certainly not enough to teach a machine how clouds work.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
20 Feb. 2026
Noun
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There is home decor and housewares such as colorful bottles, milk glass, old wooden crates, ironstone pitchers, crocks and jugs, and more; art; smaller size furniture items; puzzles and games; vintage reproductions; and timeworn furnishings.—
Pamela Brown,
Hartford Courant,
21 Feb. 2026
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The images captured by bystanders and immigration agents were reminiscent of the lynching postcards that white spectators once bought and traded — reproductions of retributive violence, tailor-made to titillate and intimidate.—
Tressie McMillan Cottom,
Mercury News,
7 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Single copies of Tuesday’s Globe newspaper will not be in stores, according to the Globe.—
Rick Sobey,
Boston Herald,
24 Feb. 2026
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If not quite distillation, Anthropic was recently accused of copyright violations by thousands of authors, allegedly downloading books in bulk from shadow libraries to train its AI models, rather than buying copies and scanning them itself.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
24 Feb. 2026
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The lyrics breathe like literary miniatures, gleefully exploring social satire, the fantastic and macabre.—
Ernesto Lechner,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Feb. 2026
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Not your average labor-intensive enchilada, these miniatures come together in just three steps and 30 minutes.—
Kimberly Holland,
Southern Living,
4 Feb. 2026
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Wiseman was born in Boston, his father a prominent attorney, his mother an administrator at a children's psychiatric ward and a would-be actor who entertained her son with stories and imitations.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
16 Feb. 2026
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But Baehren and Carvalho pointed out that these behaviors, which took place rarely and in captivity, might only be imitations of human communication.—
Shayla Love,
New Yorker,
4 Feb. 2026
Noun
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This slopocalypse racked up more than eight hundred thousand views, suggesting how readily online audiences would embrace vacant facsimiles as must-see TV.—
Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
17 Dec. 2025
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After spending years mostly directing his own projects, usually to middling reviews, Clooney has recently turned in a couple of performances that felt like pale facsimiles of former glories, in the rom-com Ticket to Paradise and the action-thriller Wolfs.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
14 Nov. 2025
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These are the narrative details of great costuming; not one-to-one replicas, but looks that capture the spirit, priorities and instincts of the person onscreen.—
Rachel Tashjian,
CNN Money,
19 Feb. 2026
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For spring 2026, the handbags are not simply replicas of former versions but as reedits with the backdrop of nostalgia.—
Thomas Waller,
Footwear News,
15 Feb. 2026
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