in the mold of someone/something
mold
verb[ T ]
us/moʊld/

moldverb[T] (SHAPE)

to shape something into a particular form:
She molded the clay into little animals.
Someone who molds someone else has an important influence on how that person develops:
Parents help mold a child’s character.

Examples of mold

mold
However, many of the interesting problems of generalization in psychological science do not fit this mold.
There are virtually no safety nets for children who don't fit into the school success mold.
An individual's creative contributions to a given text allow propositions to be molded, stretched, and ultimately accepted as true.
Through this new literature - although it was molded in juristic vocabulary - it became possible to hinder the cause of modernism in the country.
Direct savings accrue from reduced costs in the mold room and reduced coverage for sick time resulting from strain injuries to radiation therapists (radiotherapy technicians).
Experimentalists in the first half of the nineteenth century participated in a complex historical process of molding the physical sciences.
The cost to operate injection molding equipment depends on the manufacturing cycle time and the size of the equipment.
It would be possible for us to mold human nature so that our drive to resolve conflicts through war and oppression was eliminated.
Each cast was used as a template for a transparent acrylic mold of the pulmonary artery trunk and primary generation branches.
The mold was buffed and polished for maximum optical clarity, and attachments were made for mounting external tubing.
It must be, then, that in their essential properties and even down to fine detail, languages are cast in the same mold.
It took over the public space as it sought to mold society and its citizens.
After drying for two days, the mold was put into a charcoal brazier to melt the wax.
In contrast, those who adopt the probablistic approach tend to view the young brain as plastic and readily molded by experience.
First, he dipped his mold, a rectangular wire mesh bounded by a wooden frame, into a vat of warm, watery pulp.
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