mock-up

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Recent Examples of mock-up But the mock-ups got attention. New Atlas, 23 Mar. 2026 In a post on X-formerly-Twitter, Polymarket shared mock-up images of the establishment, which appears to be plastered wall-to-wall in news reels, stock tickers, and weather stations. Joe Wilkins Published Mar 19, Futurism, 19 Mar. 2026 But schedules have slipped before, perhaps unsurprisingly, in a fragile environment where every operation is preceded by months of modeling and mock-ups. Yusuke Maekawa, Bloomberg, 8 Mar. 2026 The cups may have been empty, but the gesture wasn't, as the wife and children of the late Toby Keith, backed by the cup-wielding crowd, posed with a mock-up of a highway sign for the future Toby Keith Expressway. Brandy McDonnell, Oklahoman, 3 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for mock-up
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mock-up
Noun
  • When given profit-at-all-costs prompts, agentic systems have exhibited aggressive behavior, such as threatening a competitor with supply cutoffs in simulations.
    Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 2 May 2026
  • The computer simulations enabled the team to break down those different sizes, revealing that the initial tail oscillations produce large vortex rings that generate thrust, and those larger ones then produce many more smaller vortices.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 2 May 2026
Noun
  • Bohan carried on that tradition, while also designing two collections a year for Baby Dior, often making miniatures of Elizabeth Taylor’s purchases for her daughter, Liza, which the pair would go out wearing together.
    Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 22 Apr. 2026
  • The rocketeer claimed each of these organisms — floating in the void, crowding stars like phototropic cosmic foliage — would resemble a miniature biosphere, being metabolically self-sufficient.
    Big Think, Big Think, 22 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Knapp’s wife, Grace Knapp, was presented with a copy of the commemorative street sign.
    Evy Lewis, Chicago Tribune, 29 Apr. 2026
  • There was a stack of six advanced reader copies of my own book.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 29 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Give me a mock compiled by an actual football expert who has years of experience in this realm and done the hours of homework (via studying game tape and talking to NFL personnel and scouts) over this slop.
    Jim Reineking, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Dallas needs a cornerback most and McCoy is the best one still around in my mock.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 22 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • That task had required demolition and repression, imitation and invention.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 29 Apr. 2026
  • If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, OpenAI’s actions are especially telling.
    Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Such behavior would have improved the odds of reproduction.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 May 2026
  • The concept of high-fidelity sound reproduction has been around since the 1930s and denotes a sound system with no distortion or degradation in quality.
    Nathanael Gassett, Bon Appetit Magazine, 30 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • For an all-important sit-down dinner set inside Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper Museum, a team of Italian scenic painters—led by a woman who manages backdrops for an opera in Rome—built and painted a replica on a local soundstage that was about ¾ the size of the original.
    Mara Reinstein, Architectural Digest, 1 May 2026
  • This 24-pack of Harry Potter Chocolate Frogs is a near-exact replica of the chocolate frog Ron ate with Harry on their first train ride to Hogwarts in The Sorcerer’s Stone.
    Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 1 May 2026
Noun
  • In terms of the complex set design — which looks like a facsimile of the same passage over and over but with subtle differences worming their way in — Kawamura and his team built two identical corridors for cinematographer Keisuke Imamura to follow the actors through, third- and first-person-style.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 15 Apr. 2026
  • After a crash course in evangelical social media strategy and a hefty investment from her father-in-law, determined Natalie turns their doomed ranch — Caleb can’t stop killing cows — into a successful facsimile of the perfect life.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2026

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