How to Use multimodal in a Sentence

multimodal

adjective
  • Aside from a multimodal path, no elements of the design are set.
    — Henry Grabar, Slate Magazine, 9 May 2017
  • Dark spots are very hard to treat and treatment requires a multimodal approach.
    — ELLE, 22 July 2022
  • These aren’t the first multimodal AI models people have been able to play around with.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Mar. 2023
  • This will allow users to do more multimodal prompts like text-to-image generation.
    — Emilia David, The Verge, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Prasad aims to develop an Alexa that is more self-aware and makes use of multimodal intelligence.
    — Stephanie Cain, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2022
  • The researchers expect multimodal robots to play a big role in future space explorations.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 July 2023
  • Today, if a meeting room is multimodal, someone must be curious enough to approach the touch panel and set it to the best mode.
    — Keith Yandell, Forbes.com, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Now as adults, these young people are reflecting through multimodal mediums of self-expression.
    — Essence, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Uber and Joby have launched a multimodal transportation service.
    — Kelly McCarthy, ABC News, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Initially, the bill was written to include multimodal communities up and down the coast.
    — Andre Mouchard, Oc Register, 19 Apr. 2026
  • With today’s update, Gemini is able to carry out more complex multimodal tasks.
    — Dominic Preston, The Verge, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Acosta said a multimodal facility would also mean fewer trucks on the road because large amounts of freight would be transported by rail.
    — Shawn Raymundo, The Arizona Republic, 7 Nov. 2024
  • The model also leads on multimodal reasoning.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 17 Dec. 2025
  • People want to compare prices and make informed decisions, and there is a race among companies to be the first to offer that multimodal service.
    — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Subscribers have reported that the update includes the ability to upload files and work with them, as well as multimodal support.
    — Wes Davis, The Verge, 29 Oct. 2023
  • This multimodal formulation supports flexibility and joint health in dogs of all breeds, ages, and weights.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 16 Oct. 2022
  • But like Google search, Bard is constantly evolving and becoming more multimodal.
    — Charlotte Hu, Popular Science, 10 May 2023
  • One of the most significant is the size of multimodal data, such as photo and video, which is orders of magnitude larger than text data.
    — Sage Lazzaro, Fortune, 12 Dec. 2023
  • And now multimodal AIs that are capable of parsing not only text but also images, audio, and more are on the rise.
    — Lauren Leffer, Scientific American, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Large and small multimodal models with the ability to run up to 70 tokens on SLMs.
    — Ewan Spence, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
  • The city’s leaders may talk about multimodal transportation, resilience, and cutting climate emissions.
    — Patrick Sisson, Curbed, 5 Aug. 2019
  • These two premises won’t always be valid for intelligent machines with multimodal perception.
    — Petar Popovski, IEEE Spectrum, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Language models only became viable in the last year or so, and multimodal models are even harder from a technical perspective.
    — Sage Lazzaro, Fortune, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Max Upton said the general goal is to make transit on the busy street more accessible and multimodal -- walkable, bike-able, etc.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 18 May 2022
  • Voters here will likely go to the polls in 2019 to vote on a multimodal mass-transit corridor plan, and funding for an initial phase.
    — Josh Baugh, San Antonio Express-News, 10 Apr. 2018
  • This isn’t unique to Gemini, but most multimodal models are not publicly available, difficult to use, or focused on a precise task.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 18 Dec. 2023
  • The step-wise, multimodal approach to rejuvenation is really what the newest trend is in cosmetic surgery.
    — Carolyne Zinko, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 May 2018
  • That doesn't rule out the researchers giving the Bluebot a multimodal way of sensing the world—for instance, with a robotic version of the lateral line.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 13 Jan. 2021
  • One of its standout features is multimodal AI integration.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Perhaps that’s why the researchers are now trying to create embodied multimodal AIs that can take in not just text, but sights, sounds, touch, and movement.
    — Vox Staff, Vox, 3 June 2024

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'multimodal.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: