ALTER EGOS Synonyms: 85 Similar and Opposite Words

alter egos

noun

plural of alter ego

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a person who has a strong liking for and trust in another over the years the state's other senator became his alter ego as well as his political ally

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something or someone that strongly resembles another the hero of the novel is clearly the author's alter ego, right down to his receding hairline and middle-aged paunch

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Recent Examples of alter egos With a few simple prompts, anyone can summon up a team of realistic alter egos. — Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic, 24 Apr. 2026 Duality comes up a lot in Cameron’s work—alter egos, inner contradictions, mirror images. — Nicola Dall'asen, Allure, 5 Feb. 2026 Meta was telling us that the future of social media would be immersive, like a giant Zoom call populated by digital alter egos that can interact and play games and buy stuff from one another for … fun? — Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 4 Dec. 2025 Robinson has a genius for channeling society’s ambient toxic vibes, in abstract but eerily evocative ways, through his odd alter egos. — Judy Berman, Time, 9 Oct. 2025 Her music videos have become the pop playbook, giving us everything from alter egos to male drag to hundreds of iconic looks. — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 8 Sep. 2025 Her music videos have become the pop playbook, giving us everything from alter egos to drag to hundreds of iconic looks. — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 7 Sep. 2025 The soundtrack blends a Carter Burwell score with tracks produced by Antonoff, including a new recording by Brittany Howard; a cast performance by Qualley, Plaza and Talia Ryder; and original songs by Lace Manhattan and Dixie Normus, the musical alter egos of Qualley and Ryder. — Paul Grein, Billboard, 22 Aug. 2025

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Noun

But recounting each group’s beginning and remembering many wonderful friends who have passed away were also important to those gathered.

— Tom Strong, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2026
Also very modern-seeming are the complex emotional relationships Perry describes between spouses, parents and their children, siblings or friends from different cultures or societies.

— Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 20 Sep. 2026

Definition of friends

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This is on top of Perez Hilton and plenty of other sites (Gawker included) that would just flat-out insult people, draw nasty things on their pictures, and just generally malign them.

— Brian Moylan, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2026
Post-ballet, Sorbara will walk ten blocks south of Lincoln Center for a borscht martini at Russian Samovar, where, fittingly, the walls are adorned with pictures of Baryshnikov.

— Fiorella Valdesolo, Curbed, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of pictures

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Rosé lives the California dream, as her buddies drop into empty swimming pools on skateboards, bounce on mattresses and get up to good, clean fun.

— Lars Brandle, Billboard, 18 Sep. 2026
The two meet cute at a deeply awful Toronto nightclub; Emma is trying to feel young and free, while Raiff’s character, an old soul in a twenty-something body, is taken by the somewhat older woman who is much more fun than his drunk buddies.

— Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 13 Sep. 2026

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But independent analysts warned the pipeline could remain down for weeks, based on satellite images showing significant damage to a pumping station.

— Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2026
The images were displayed in court as opening statements began Tuesday in a wrongful death case against developer and minority Sacramento Kings owner Phil Oates.

— Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of images

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Generation to Generation When Max and Emme were young, Anthony posted a rare personal family photo with the twins and his father.

— Brendan Le, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2026
Aramco is using historical data, digital twins, and network monitoring across its facilities to identify problems and speed up recovery times, Al Ajmi said.

— Matthew Martin, semafor.com, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of twins

Noun

During the Qingming Festival, observed each year in April, families visit ancestral graves with food offerings and burn incense and paper replicas of everyday goods for their ancestors.

— ABC News, ABC News, 17 Sep. 2026
Digital twin models, in particular, are used to build more reliable, responsive and adaptive systems by creating virtual replicas of real-world networks.

— Miroslav Katsarov, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2026

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