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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
Asaf is down with the core reason for the protest and, as a campus role model, there is pressure to sign from activists, including from a former girlfriend, Nakia (Sharyon Culberson).
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Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 9 Apr. 2026
Lopes needed an adult role model and one came along in the coach at an opposing high school, Mike Sarkesian, who grew up in a Providence tenement but became the basketball coach and athletic director at Iowa Wesleyan College the year Lopes graduated from high school.
—Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2026
Jenner is also not the first foreign woman to be held up as a role model in China because of her and her family’s business success, with Maye Musk — the mother of tech billionaire Elon Musk — also gaining a large online following.
—Erin Tan, NBC news, 4 Apr. 2026
Dylan has also credited his sisters for being role models for him in the sport.
—Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 4 Apr. 2026
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Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 9 Apr. 2026
Lopes needed an adult role model and one came along in the coach at an opposing high school, Mike Sarkesian, who grew up in a Providence tenement but became the basketball coach and athletic director at Iowa Wesleyan College the year Lopes graduated from high school.
—Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2026
Jenner is also not the first foreign woman to be held up as a role model in China because of her and her family’s business success, with Maye Musk — the mother of tech billionaire Elon Musk — also gaining a large online following.
—Erin Tan, NBC news, 4 Apr. 2026
Dylan has also credited his sisters for being role models for him in the sport.
—Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 4 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for role model
Noun
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But as anyone who has argued over a set of new windows can attest, condo boards are a better example.—
Chris Jones,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Apr. 2026
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For example, consider buying your mom a weighted vest.—
Izzy Baskette,
PEOPLE,
21 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Focus on one idea and carry it through.—
Tarot.com,
Baltimore Sun,
18 Apr. 2026
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Barnes and Imam had been trading ideas with a scholar named Andrew Willard Jones, whose work focussed on the model of Christendom found in, say, High Middle Ages France, where society was organized around its relationship with the Church.—
Emma Green,
New Yorker,
17 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Alaves should be similarly worried, according to Opta’s model, facing both of the top two before the season is out, while Sevilla do not have it easy after a massive game at Levante on Wednesday.—
Thom Harris,
New York Times,
21 Apr. 2026
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The company had a two-bedroom, 360-square-foot model that cost $96,900 on display outside its factory.—
Aldo Svaldi,
Denver Post,
21 Apr. 2026
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