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.
—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.
—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.
—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.
—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.
—Kelsey D. Atherton, Popular Science, 6 Mar. 2023
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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.
—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.
—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.
—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.
—Daniel Cote, Robb Report, 21 Feb. 2024
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Monuments—galleys, lavatories, and stowage compartments—are finished in workshops, then moved to a mock-up of the plane.
—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.
—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.
—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.
—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.
—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.
—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.
—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.
—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.
—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.
—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.
—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.
—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.
—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.
—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.
—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.
—Lauren Goode, WIRED, 22 Feb. 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.
—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.
—Hakan Tanriverdi, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2023
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