: one that looks like another : double
look-alike adjective

Examples of look-alike in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web And now, decades after the show was a nightly must-watch ritual in living rooms across the country, Mrs. Roper look-alikes are bringing back a bit of nostalgia – and a lot of laughs. Laylan Connelly, Orange County Register, 17 Mar. 2024 And now the Times, which purchased the game in 2022, is sending takedown notices to people behind some of the look-alikes. Wyatte Grantham-Philips, Fortune, 13 Mar. 2024 The basc Quartet—perhaps spurred on by the gaze of so many look-alike eyes—found the through line of Schoenberg’s personality, which is by turns impassioned, whimsical, savage, and melancholy. Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024 Others will come in expecting to see Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams look-alikes onstage. Rob Tannenbaum, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024 At each location, Rybak and his colleagues discovered, assembly lines of people had been producing Morrisseau look-alikes. Jordan Michael Smith, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2024 That was a look-alike dude known on social media only as Z, or @zbo.nohomes on TikTok and zbo4lean on Instagram. Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 5 Mar. 2024 The Most Fashionable Mother-Daughter Duos at Paris Fashion Week While her look-alike was busy practicing for her runway gig, elsewhere at Paris Fashion Week Moss was busy attending the Saint Laurent show with her 21-year-old daughter, Lila. Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 4 Mar. 2024 Seeing her alongside her look-alike daughter offers a powerful reminder that Ms. Navalnaya’s struggle does not end with her or her husband. Rhonda Garelick, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1904, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of look-alike was in 1904

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“Look-alike.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/look-alike. Accessed 29 Mar. 2024.

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