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
The curving strip is like Lewis Carroll’s looking glass.
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Book Marks
june 20, Literary Hub, 20 June 2025
As with much of the movie, including Ramona’s literal trip through the looking glass where all text is reversed, there’s a heavy surreality hanging over everything.
—Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 28 Mar. 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
For many, the start of the pandemic was like going through the looking glass.
—Aatish Bhatia, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2025
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Book Marks
june 20, Literary Hub, 20 June 2025
As with much of the movie, including Ramona’s literal trip through the looking glass where all text is reversed, there’s a heavy surreality hanging over everything.
—Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 28 Mar. 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
For many, the start of the pandemic was like going through the looking glass.
—Aatish Bhatia, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for looking glass
Recent Examples of Synonyms for looking glass
mirror
Noun
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While the naturally occurring mirror molecules hitching a ride on nearby asteroids are not going to have any impact on our home planet, the experts feared that biologists may — in the lab — be able to artificially create entire mirror-image organisms, to potentially disastrous results.—
Thomas Moynihan,
Big Think,
15 Sep. 2025
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Today's macOS 26 Tahoe release holds up a translucent, glassy mirror to the Big Sur update.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
15 Sep. 2025
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“Looking glass.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/looking%20glass. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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