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
But schedules have slipped before, perhaps unsurprisingly, in a fragile environment where every operation is preceded by months of modeling and mock-ups.
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Yusuke Maekawa, Bloomberg, 8 Mar. 2026
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.
—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
Yusuke Maekawa, Bloomberg, 8 Mar. 2026
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.
—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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Only specific frequencies trigger movement, and computer simulations show that sound waves transfer enough momentum to move the kink despite partial reflection.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
22 Mar. 2026
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It's achieved substantial improvements in tasks like reconstructing the universe’s initial conditions, cleaning up foreground contamination from faint cosmic signals, and fine-tuning physics in N-body simulations.—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
22 Mar. 2026
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Throughout, artworks by Lawrence Weiner and Lee Ufan are paired with reproductions of important modernist furniture by the likes of Le Corbusier and Gerrit Rietveld.—
Wendy Goodman,
Curbed,
21 Mar. 2026
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But now, tourists will be able to sit on large travertine marble slabs where their columns once stood and read reproductions of the Roman numerals that indicated seat sections.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
17 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The story of a secret agent confronted with duplicity and bureaucracy from his own side while investigating a Soviet kidnap ring, it was published in 1962 and went on to sell millions of copies.—
Jill Lawless,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Mar. 2026
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The book and its series have sold over 2 million copies worldwide.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
17 Mar. 2026
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The film also features a car chase depicted with miniatures and stop-motion animation to convey humanoid figures who have removed their skin.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Mar. 2026
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Most pieces last for three or four minutes, and the album feels like a collection of closely connected miniatures.—
Mark Richardson,
Pitchfork,
12 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Beautiful people are doing good-enough imitations of famous people.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
11 Mar. 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
Noun
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The Carter Museum also partnered with the Fort Worth History Center to provide a number of archival materials, photographs, and facsimiles of the Como Weekly, a Black newspaper in the Lake Como community that ran from 1940 until 1986.—
Kamal Morgan,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
13 Mar. 2026
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The installation reproduces local KGB archives on Stalin and facsimiles of historical artifacts of the 1960s placed around an AR reconstruction of Buddha in Nirvana, a forty-three-foot-long, 1,600-year-old clay statue of a reclining Buddha excavated in Tajikistan in the late ’60s.—
Anel Rakhimzhanova,
Artforum,
1 Mar. 2026
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Its rules stipulate that consent from performers must be given for the use of digital replicas.—
Jake Coyle,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Mar. 2026
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The union was successful in 2023 in establishing robust protections over the use of AI replicas.—
Gene Maddaus,
Variety,
16 Mar. 2026
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“Mock-ups.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mock-ups. Accessed 23 Mar. 2026.
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