as in image
something or someone that strongly resembles another
looking at the idealistic intern, the elderly physician could not help but see the mirror image of himself 40 years earlier
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Recent Examples of mirror image
This season is a mirror image of last year: Down the stretch, Gonzaga’s at-large status seemed in doubt, but a late hot streak of key wins vaulted it all the way up to a No. 5 seed thanks to sparkling quality metrics.
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Jim Root, The Athletic, 20 Feb. 2025
While other rooms are mirror images of Palace suites, these rooms come with elevated design embellishments and personalized service.
—Carley Thornell, Robb Report, 31 Dec. 2024
The songs were mirror images of each other, with each character accompanied by smaller, minion-sized versions of themselves, all brought to life in Animagic.
—Victoria Edel, People.com, 10 Dec. 2024
Two long, tall barracks came into view, mirror images of each other.
—Hazlitt, 3 Dec. 2024
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Jim Root, The Athletic, 20 Feb. 2025
While other rooms are mirror images of Palace suites, these rooms come with elevated design embellishments and personalized service.
—Carley Thornell, Robb Report, 31 Dec. 2024
The songs were mirror images of each other, with each character accompanied by smaller, minion-sized versions of themselves, all brought to life in Animagic.
—Victoria Edel, People.com, 10 Dec. 2024
Two long, tall barracks came into view, mirror images of each other.
—Hazlitt, 3 Dec. 2024
See All Example Sentences for mirror image
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mirror image
Noun
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Many people are used to watching entertainment on their cellphones, with vertical images that don’t require turning the phone sideways.—
Schuyler Moore,
Forbes,
18 Mar. 2025
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One of the most enduring images in F*cktoys is when AP and Danni ride through town on their motorbike, their increasingly disheveled appearances marking the passage of time and the difficulty of their journey.—
Lovia Gyarkye,
The Hollywood Reporter,
18 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The twins’ family contacted CAIR one day after the locker room attack, leading to the nonprofit’s involvement in the situation, Memon said.—
Yash Roy,
CNN,
22 Mar. 2025
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The two went on to have five more children: twins Vivian and Griffin, 20, and triplets Kai, Saxon and Damian, 19.—
Hannah Sacks,
People.com,
20 Mar. 2025
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One approach would be to ramp up artificial neural networks to the level of being an exact replica of a human brain.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes,
19 Mar. 2025
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Mark Rober, who has over 65 million subscribers on YouTube, tested the vehicle's autonomous cameras by driving at a screen with an exact replica of the road behind it, in the style of a Looney Tunes sketch.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
17 Mar. 2025
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To use the new system, fans use the app to take a picture of their face, which is converted into a code, which is then associated with the fan’s account and the image is deleted.—
Josh Bruni,
Forbes,
12 Mar. 2025
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In Room 15, for example, Matisse’s Red Madras Headdress (1907) is flanked by (among other things) a pair of watery landscapes, a pair of fans, a pair of soup ladles, and a pair of pictures, each showing a woman and a dog (one of them from the hand of William Glackens’s daughter, age 9).—
Susan Tallman,
The Atlantic,
12 Mar. 2025
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Moreover, the combination of the specific chord progression in the melody paired with the verbatim hook was a greater than 50% clone of Vance’s original work, in both lyric choice and chord expressions.—
Anthony Robledo,
USA TODAY,
21 Mar. 2025
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The film, which stars Robert Pattinson as a clone who works menial jobs in a futuristic dystopia, will likely lose between $75 million to $80 million during its theatrical run, according to three sources with knowledge of the economics of movies on this scale.—
Rebecca Rubin,
Variety,
20 Mar. 2025
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He's got a little sidekick over there named Mark Paoletta who is one of the people in the portrait with Harlan Crow and Leonard Leo and Clarence Thomas.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
16 Mar. 2025
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Enter the boardroom and there is a framed portrait of Arend on the left-hand wall.—
Daniel Taylor,
The Athletic,
14 Mar. 2025
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For the other cases, there were a variety of outcomes, including if an animal was taken into custody, if the call was canceled, if the report was a duplicate or if the case was left open.—
Eleanor Nash,
Kansas City Star,
6 Mar. 2025
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To make up for this, a free duplicate of the Road to Unova: Raids Timed Research will be granted to all Trainers globally.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
Newsweek,
26 Feb. 2025
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“Mirror image.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mirror%20image. Accessed 27 Mar. 2025.
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