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as in equivalent
one that is equal to another in status, achievement, or value
she worked with her counterpart in the other office to get the job done
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as in twin
something or someone that strongly resembles another
the daughter is her mother's counterpart in somewhat reduced form
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The drug is the 25-milligram oral version of semaglutide, the active ingredient in the Danish drugmaker's popular weight loss injection Wegovy and diabetes counterpart Ozempic.
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Annika Kim Constantino,ashley Capoot, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2025
Cats are known for being stubborn creatures who, unlike their canine counterparts, often refuse to follow commands given by their owners.
—Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
Smith’s robotic factories struggled to match the productivity of their human-run counterparts.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2025
The Justice Department, which oversees the immigration courts, requested the assistance from the Defense Department, according to the memo sent by the Pentagon’s executive secretary to his DOJ counterpart.
—Konstantin Toropin, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2025
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Annika Kim Constantino,ashley Capoot, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2025
Cats are known for being stubborn creatures who, unlike their canine counterparts, often refuse to follow commands given by their owners.
—Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
Smith’s robotic factories struggled to match the productivity of their human-run counterparts.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2025
The Justice Department, which oversees the immigration courts, requested the assistance from the Defense Department, according to the memo sent by the Pentagon’s executive secretary to his DOJ counterpart.
—Konstantin Toropin, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2025
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Jellycat — the British equivalent of Beanie Babies — was founded as a high-end children’s toy brand in London in 1999.—
Denni Hu,
Footwear News,
5 Sep. 2025
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On average, participants reported using the equivalent of 10 to 17 joints per week considering today's strains are widely reported to be much stronger than in past decades.—
Khloe Quill,
FOXNews.com,
5 Sep. 2025
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The twins have increasingly relied on silhouettes that consist of a strip tube top or bandeau top, a tiny miniskirt, and a long, layered jacket, and once again, both brothers are doing the same thing.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025
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Though Twinless is a movie all about twins, writer-director and star James Sweeney is not a twin himself.—
Barry Levitt,
Time,
5 Sep. 2025
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Creator @tinalemac shared her step-by-step process for transforming a plain IKEA mirror into a high-end replica using nothing more than tin foil and air-dry clay.—
Elizabeth Fogarty,
Better Homes & Gardens,
7 Sep. 2025
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Acutis' tomb in Assisi—his body displayed in a wax replica and dressed in casual clothes and sneakers—has become a major pilgrimage site, and relics associated with him have toured internationally.—
Jordan King,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Sep. 2025
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At the event Nvidia speakers particularly focused on enterprise inference applications, where AI hopes to achieve its return on investment as pointed out in the slide image below.—
Thomas Coughlin,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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The comments came as New Zealand Police released images on Tuesday showing a campsite set up in Waitomo, which is believed to be where Phillips and his children had been staying before he was fatally shot.—
Becca Longmire,
PEOPLE,
9 Sep. 2025
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But the clues as to what was happening were written on the images, allowing mission personnel to experiment on a clone of the camera, in a laboratory setting.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
3 Sep. 2025
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By offering personalized engagement, clones build audiences, generate mailing lists, and drive product sales in a way traditional media cannot.—
Tim Bajarin,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Now, what’s wrong with that picture?—
Jamie McIntyre,
The Washington Examiner,
5 Sep. 2025
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There was a sharp spike in job cuts during August, new data shows, as employers shed staff due to a worsening economic picture.—
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Sep. 2025
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The seemingly unassuming coming-of-ager – a sunny portrait of happy high-school adolescence in Seoul – builds in complexity as a vision of livewire student’s Joo-in’s courage and resilience in the face of trauma, unknown and then misinterpreted by her equally young classmates.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
6 Sep. 2025
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The portrait museum has a dizzying array of galleries depicting everything from Old Hollywood to 17th-century Indigenous Americans.—
BrieAnna J. Frank,
USA Today,
6 Sep. 2025
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“Counterpart.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/counterpart. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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