dead ringer
noun
: someone who looks exactly like someone else
She's a dead ringer for my cousin Julie.
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Canoe Bay's prairie-style homes are a dead ringer for a Frank Lloyd Wright design.
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Kristine Hansen, Travel + Leisure, 10 Aug. 2025
The Catch is based on that last premise: two sisters, whose mother has passed, are suddenly confronted with a dead ringer for their dead mother alive and well in London.
—Literary Hub, 7 Jan. 2025
Woo-seok is a dead ringer for Jin-woo: There is, however, a whole lot of skepticism about this concept, as comes with any live-action adaptation.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025
To sell the scene, Fey cast her mini-me daughter Alice Richmond, a dead ringer for her mom.
—Andrea Wurzburger, People.com, 22 June 2025
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Kristine Hansen, Travel + Leisure, 10 Aug. 2025
The Catch is based on that last premise: two sisters, whose mother has passed, are suddenly confronted with a dead ringer for their dead mother alive and well in London.
—Literary Hub, 7 Jan. 2025
Woo-seok is a dead ringer for Jin-woo: There is, however, a whole lot of skepticism about this concept, as comes with any live-action adaptation.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025
To sell the scene, Fey cast her mini-me daughter Alice Richmond, a dead ringer for her mom.
—Andrea Wurzburger, People.com, 22 June 2025
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“Dead ringer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dead%20ringer. Accessed 23 Aug. 2025.
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