as in mirror
a smooth or polished surface that forms images by reflection
always remember that the image is reversed in the looking glass
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Recent Examples of looking glass
Like Alice through the looking glass, I was ushered ever deeper into its passageways.
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Kian Tajbakhsh, The Atlantic, 27 June 2025
Alice’s experience reflects something deep about our own universe: Everything is not the same through the looking glass.
—Zack Savitsky, Wired News, 22 June 2025
The curving strip is like Lewis Carroll’s looking glass.
—Book Marks
june 20, Literary Hub, 20 June 2025
Whether greeting guests in your entryway, dressing up a ho-hum bathroom, or crowning a fireplace, console, or headboard, this leafy looking glass is sure to make a striking and lasting first impression.
—Miles Walls, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Mar. 2025
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Kian Tajbakhsh, The Atlantic, 27 June 2025
Alice’s experience reflects something deep about our own universe: Everything is not the same through the looking glass.
—Zack Savitsky, Wired News, 22 June 2025
The curving strip is like Lewis Carroll’s looking glass.
—Book Marks
june 20, Literary Hub, 20 June 2025
Whether greeting guests in your entryway, dressing up a ho-hum bathroom, or crowning a fireplace, console, or headboard, this leafy looking glass is sure to make a striking and lasting first impression.
—Miles Walls, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for looking glass
Recent Examples of Synonyms for looking glass
mirror
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Or, like teenager Kashmira, to escape the sight of her abusive and absentee father’s genetics in the mirror every morning.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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The White House’s efforts to centralize federal grantmaking, restrict free speech, erase public data and expand surveillance mirror China’s successful playbook for building scientific capacity while suppressing dissent.—
Kenneth M. Evans,
The Conversation,
3 Nov. 2025
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“Looking glass.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/looking%20glass. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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