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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
Decades later, athletes from every race would become teammates, friends, and role models for millions of children growing up across America.
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Jon Root Outkick,
FOXNews.com,
4 July 2026
Annaconne and Faigenbaum both said that includes children having access to safe, noncompetitive activity, like recess in schools, and positive role models, like parents.
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Chelsea Cirruzzo,
STAT,
2 July 2026
To their community, the couple appeared to be role models of happiness and devotion.
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Chris Spargo,
PEOPLE,
1 July 2026
Sports can also help protect against depression and stress by bringing supportive adults and positive role models into children’s lives.
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Megan Gandy,
The Conversation,
1 July 2026
Serena comeback Świątek will also have the chance to watch another one of her role models up close at this year’s Wimbledon.
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Ben Church,
CNN Money,
29 June 2026
Kids ‘n Kinship provides friendships and positive role models to children and youth ages 5-16 who are in need of an additional supportive relationship with an adult.
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Pioneer Press,
Twin Cities,
25 June 2026
Friendships provide everything from support networks to career references to role models.
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Savanah F.s. Bray,
Fortune,
22 June 2026
Leagues like this provide opportunities for more female athletes to play professionally and offer more role models for youth athletes.
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Latif Love
june 18,
Kansas City Star,
18 June 2026
Jon Root Outkick,
FOXNews.com,
4 July 2026
Annaconne and Faigenbaum both said that includes children having access to safe, noncompetitive activity, like recess in schools, and positive role models, like parents.
—
Chelsea Cirruzzo,
STAT,
2 July 2026
To their community, the couple appeared to be role models of happiness and devotion.
—
Chris Spargo,
PEOPLE,
1 July 2026
Sports can also help protect against depression and stress by bringing supportive adults and positive role models into children’s lives.
—
Megan Gandy,
The Conversation,
1 July 2026
Serena comeback Świątek will also have the chance to watch another one of her role models up close at this year’s Wimbledon.
—
Ben Church,
CNN Money,
29 June 2026
Kids ‘n Kinship provides friendships and positive role models to children and youth ages 5-16 who are in need of an additional supportive relationship with an adult.
—
Pioneer Press,
Twin Cities,
25 June 2026
Friendships provide everything from support networks to career references to role models.
—
Savanah F.s. Bray,
Fortune,
22 June 2026
Leagues like this provide opportunities for more female athletes to play professionally and offer more role models for youth athletes.
—
Latif Love
june 18,
Kansas City Star,
18 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for role models
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Other examples include the Department of Justice's lawsuit against RealPage, which has been accused of helping landlords drive up rent prices, and the DOJ's lawsuit against Agri Stats, a data-sharing company accused of helping the meatpacking industry inflate grocery prices.
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Most Americans today are familiar with some of the famous examples, like Bostonians dumping tea in the harbor in response to the Tea Act of 1773.
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Bringing together images made since 2010, the project draws from different moments in his practice and expands ideas first explored in his 2015 photobook Momentary, with new work continuing to be added as the project evolves.
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The festival is also a place to discuss ideas, to collaborate on projects, to discuss co-productions, to dream and be a part of the conversation globally to ensure that the next generations here will have a better future in film.
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India relies heavily on foreign AI models and computing hardware, which makes its AI ambitions vulnerable to export control directives of other countries.
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McGinley photographed models cavorting naked (always naked) through sand dunes in the Mojave Desert and pine forests in Vermont, in a frigid ice cave in upstate New York and perched above a rushing waterfall in Tennessee.
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The persistence of these misconceptions matters because clinicians and the public alike may expect Ebola to look dramatic from the outset, when in reality its early manifestations often resemble many other common infectious diseases.
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The Cane Ridge Revival would become an epochal moment in American religious history, one of the most visible manifestations of what historians would later refer to as the Second Great Awakening.
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