Thesaurus results for ROLE MODELS

role models

noun

plural of 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 models His classmates were the sons of some of Greenwich’s richest country club members, and as a teenager Marc adopted these men as role models, studied their careers. — Literary Hub, 26 Oct. 2026 The final score was the high school Bluejays 32 to the dads/role models 28. — Paula Wethington, CBS News, 12 Oct. 2026 It was recently honored with an Albie Award from the Maysles Documentary Center, an award honoring those who inspire, not only through their work, but also through their roles as mentors, role models, and champions of social justice. — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2026 The initiative aims to demystify finance and show students role models from different backgrounds. — Sam Birchall, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2026 Many became lifelong friends, and role models for me as husbands, fathers, workers and community servants. — Tom Strong, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2026 Define behaviors that reflect company values, identify role models and promptly address conduct that undermines those values. — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2026 Renatto sees positive mentors as especially important for students who may have absent fathers or other adults in their lives who are not constructive role models. — Chaewon Chung, Sacbee.com, 17 Sep. 2026 But the careers of those champions and potential role models are becoming increasingly distant memories. — Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026

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Noun

But the objects we are left with, to take both Kaplan and Naumann as examples, often fall short of what either a painting or sculpture can be—and, without the theater play itself, what of the pertinent conversation?

— Kristian Vistrup Madsen, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2026
The proceeds of each of the 10 examples of the $497,000 Akrivia x Louis Vuitton LVRR-01 went toward supporting winners of the prize, who received 150,000 euros (approximately $173,150) plus a year-long mentorship from La Fabrique du Temps.

— Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 1 Nov. 2026

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Copyright protects a program’s code, Grimmelmann says, but not the algorithms and ideas the code implements.

— Peter Hall, Scientific American, 30 Oct. 2026
Almost all the controls were electronic buttons, and the dashboard was entirely digital—two ideas that sound reasonable today but were nightmarishly complex in the mid-1970s.

— Will Sabel Courtney, Robb Report, 30 Oct. 2026

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The team used those models to guide fabrication and optimize the final device.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 30 Oct. 2026
The forecast notes that some models are calling for rain to arrive later, so there’s still a chance Saturday evening could be dry.

— Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of models

Noun

Rachel Ojuromi had been in Paris for a week when one of her oldest manifestations started to become real life.

— Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 6 Oct. 2026
Compared with the political circus in Washington and the malaise in the rest of America, such surface-level manifestations of China’s wealth and power often lead to sweeping conclusions about relative national trajectories.

— Carl Minzner, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2026

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