How to Use mock-up in a Sentence
mock-up
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For a new build, Byrd uses the same process on a mock-up of the future walls.
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Ryan Conner,
Dallas News,
5 June 2023
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For months, Shank had a mock-up of a toilet stall in his office as designs were tweaked for the $55 million project.
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John Kelly,
Washington Post,
26 July 2023
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The set, a sturdy mock-up of a settler’s house that took students two months to build, was demolished.
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J. David Goodman,
New York Times,
14 Nov. 2023
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Both mock-ups of these new emoji motions look like the people are sleeping, which is strange.
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Jennifer Jolly,
USA TODAY,
17 July 2023
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The mock-ups also show a clear bubble cockpit, which the display model lacked.
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Kelsey D. Atherton,
Popular Science,
6 Mar. 2023
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There are mock-up models of his current shows in Italy and Qatar (which opens today), with miniature cutouts of the work in cardboard.
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Kirsty Lang For The Times,
Robb Report,
1 Dec. 2021
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Down the hall, a mock-up is in place for astronauts to train on how to enter the Dream Chaser and pack and unpack cargo while it's docked at the station.
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Stephen Clark,
Ars Technica,
1 Nov. 2023
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The clapboard animal is a mock-up of the Trojan Horse of mythological fame.
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Nick Hilden,
CNN,
10 May 2023
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Favreau walked her around various mock-ups of characters, most of them hidden by masks.
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Seth Abramovitch,
The Hollywood Reporter,
14 Mar. 2024
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The monuments—galleys, lavatories, and stowage compartments—are finished in workshops, then moved to a mock-up of the plane.
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Daniel Cote,
Robb Report,
21 Feb. 2024
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On the other, mock-ups show the potential for more of a throwback look, one reminiscent of old-school flannel jerseys.
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Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
23 Jan. 2024
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Monuments—galleys, lavatories, and stowage compartments—are finished in workshops, then moved to a mock-up of the plane.
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Michael Verdon,
Robb Report,
9 July 2023
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But authority officials caution the mock-up is only a rough layout of what the train could feature and nothing is set in stone.
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Randy Diamond,
Sacramento Bee,
26 Jan. 2024
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Often, the artist will make several mock-ups, going back and forth with the researchers to determine which is best and any details that might need adjustment, Cook says.
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Alison Klesman,
Discover Magazine,
11 Nov. 2023
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Where Yarish sees a difference is Wynona’s emphasis on capturing the feel of those films, rather than making derivative mock-ups of on-screen kit.
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Eric Twardzik,
Robb Report,
17 May 2023
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YouTube YouTube-provided mock-up of a content label added to the video player, warning of altered or synthetic content.
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Benj Edwards,
Ars Technica,
15 Nov. 2023
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She was also seen standing opposite Malone, 28, in front of a mock-up background of a coastline as more windswept papers circled the pair, with more paper covering the floor.
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Escher Walcott,
Peoplemag,
4 May 2024
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To replace the rocket, the legislature passed a law earlier this year for a mock-up to be installed at the under-renovation welcome center.
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Paul Gattis | Pgattis@al.com,
al,
14 Sep. 2023
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Investigators with the bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives built a full-scale mock-up of the middle deck of the 75-foot vessel in their quest to determine the fire’s point of origin and cause.
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Richard Winton,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Sep. 2023
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You are greeted by a big mock-up rocket at the entrance of the city; there are billboards by space agencies, Lockheed Martin and Airbus sprinkled around town, and graffiti of monkeys in spacesuits adorns the sides of buildings.
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Karlijn Korpershoek,
Smithsonian Magazine,
15 June 2023
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Israel’s troops train for urban combat, including in tunnels, at a mock-up Palestinian city on a military base located in the Negev Desert.
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Brian Glyn Williams,
The Conversation,
8 Nov. 2023
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At the recent House Democratic retreat, mock-ups of such signs circulated among attendees.
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Daniel Strauss,
The New Republic,
7 Mar. 2023
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The movie’s wartime prologue and its occasional flashbacks and nightmare scenes were filmed in a mock-up of a Middle Eastern village erected for training purposes at Camp Pendleton.
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Mark Jenkins,
Washington Post,
7 June 2023
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Microsoft executive Yusuf Mehdi told me last week about using AI image creation for mock-up images of a remodeled room in his home.
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Shira Ovide,
Washington Post,
29 Sep. 2023
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Mexican governors have gone to loopy extremes, like putting up billboards, creating special car lanes or creating mock-ups of Tesla ads for their states.
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Mark Stevenson,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Feb. 2023
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Another set of large-scale military exercises, similar to the blockade mock-up in the wake of Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit in 2022, is possible.
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Nathaniel Taplin,
WSJ,
15 Jan. 2024
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In one recent interview, Catherine was given a take-home assignment: Build a desktop app from scratch, connect it to a mock-up of a backend system, and provide extensive documentation of each step.
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Lauren Goode,
WIRED,
22 Feb. 2024
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While air battles were executed digitally, the production used four real B-17s, and full-scale mock-ups of cockpits and bomber bays that were suspended 50 feet in the air on a gimbal and surrounded by high-definition screens.
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Marco Della Cava,
USA TODAY,
25 Jan. 2024
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Boeing has elected not to bring any commercial aircraft to this year’s Singapore Airshow, featuring a 777X cabin experience mock-up instead.
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Marisa Garcia,
Forbes,
19 Feb. 2024
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Several mock-ups of a user interface for a project known as Amezit appear to depict examples of possible hacking targets, including the Foreign Ministry in Switzerland and a nuclear power plant in that nation.
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Hakan Tanriverdi,
Washington Post,
30 Mar. 2023
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