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Recent Examples on the Web Ray Nicholson is his real-life dad Jack Nicholson's doppelganger in Smile 2. Benjamin Vanhoose, People.com, 18 Oct. 2024 The internet named him a doppelganger for Gru, the lead character voiced by Steve Carell, and landed him for a TV spot with the Minions. Todd Longwell, Variety, 25 Sep. 2024 The idea is to reclaim her space within the industry via a pretty doppelganger. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2024 In the Emmys press room, Smith discussed his reasoning for making the reference to his name doppelganger. Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 16 Sep. 2024 The best known of the cycle is Charles Chaplin’s The Great Dictator (1940), where the comedian plays both a Hitler doppelganger (same body type, same moustache) and a Jewish barber. Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Aug. 2024 Your doppelganger cornering you in a lonely lighthouse. Anya Jaremko-Greenwold, The Week Us, theweek, 9 Aug. 2024 Starlight makes her peace (begrudgingly) with the fact that Hughie’s spent the last week screwing her doppelganger. Alex Raiman, EW.com, 18 July 2024 In Showtime’s 2017 Twin Peaks revival, MacLachlan reprised his role as FBI Agent Dale Cooper, as well as his dark doppelganger and Dougie, who was a tulpa created by the doppelganger to avoid returning to the Black Lodge. Glenn Garner, Deadline, 13 July 2024

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“Doppelgänger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/doppelg%C3%A4nger. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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