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or doppelganger
as in twin
something or someone that strongly resembles another
at the mall today I saw someone who could be your doppelgänger
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Recent Examples of doppelgänger
There was no stage, just a jammed pack restaurant with folks wondering who would win the title as the closest looking doppelganger to Williams, including guys and gals.
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Shardaa Gray, CBS News, 21 Jan. 2026
Another centered on a teenage girl (Chloë Sevigny doppelgänger Emma Halleen), whose insecurities blind her to a life that is, on its surface, pretty good, finds a palpable sadness within the bedlam of the show.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 21 Jan. 2026
Years of posting videos and photos of my kitchen projects have created this reflexive doppelgänger, someone practically unable to cook without the observing eye of an audience.
—The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Jan. 2026
Delirious Dolly held up her doll doppelganger, eyes wide.
—Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 18 Dec. 2025
Doppel—named for the word doppelgänger—has no shortage of competitors, including Bolster, ZeroFox, KnowBe4, and Netcraft.
—Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 19 Nov. 2025
Always Greener, which scored 15 nominations on the annual Brit List, is a high concept script that follows a struggling artist, haunted by past failure, who is given a one-in-a-million chance to become his rich and successful doppelganger from a parallel universe.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2025
One time, Johnson even almost made off with his doppelganger’s car at a local Nashville airport.
—Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2025
At the center of Paper Girl is the moving story of a young man, Silas James, Macy’s present-day doppelgänger.
—Alex Kotlowitz, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2025
Shardaa Gray, CBS News, 21 Jan. 2026
Another centered on a teenage girl (Chloë Sevigny doppelgänger Emma Halleen), whose insecurities blind her to a life that is, on its surface, pretty good, finds a palpable sadness within the bedlam of the show.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 21 Jan. 2026
Years of posting videos and photos of my kitchen projects have created this reflexive doppelgänger, someone practically unable to cook without the observing eye of an audience.
—The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Jan. 2026
Delirious Dolly held up her doll doppelganger, eyes wide.
—Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 18 Dec. 2025
Doppel—named for the word doppelgänger—has no shortage of competitors, including Bolster, ZeroFox, KnowBe4, and Netcraft.
—Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 19 Nov. 2025
Always Greener, which scored 15 nominations on the annual Brit List, is a high concept script that follows a struggling artist, haunted by past failure, who is given a one-in-a-million chance to become his rich and successful doppelganger from a parallel universe.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2025
One time, Johnson even almost made off with his doppelganger’s car at a local Nashville airport.
—Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2025
At the center of Paper Girl is the moving story of a young man, Silas James, Macy’s present-day doppelgänger.
—Alex Kotlowitz, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for doppelgänger
Noun
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If convicted, Oren and Alon Alexander, 38-year-old twins, and Tal Alexander, 39, could face life in prison.—
Isabelle McCauley,
ABC News,
27 Jan. 2026
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Twinless was made for next-to-nothing and features O’Brien’s richest screen performance to date as twins — one grieving the death of the other.—
David Canfield,
HollywoodReporter,
26 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Women other than Maxwell were redacted from videos and images being released Friday, Blanche said.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
31 Jan. 2026
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View gallery - 3 images Walking in the rain with an umbrella is never a hands-free experience.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
31 Jan. 2026
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This season, Roseberry continued his mission with a haute couture collection that featured replica reptilian textures, protruding tusk breasts, scorpion bustiers and a translucent two-piece skirt suit rendered in hyperreal blowfish scales.—
Leah Dolan,
CNN Money,
29 Jan. 2026
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The headtopper has an interesting history, as Queen Mary commissioned the pearl and diamond design from Garrard in 1913 as a replica of an ancestral jewel.—
Janine Henni,
PEOPLE,
29 Jan. 2026
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But those competitors have released junky TikTok clones and slop generators.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
28 Jan. 2026
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Still bolder spammers have even tried to impersonate famous musicians, such as when prog rock band King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard pulled their music from Spotify in protest of the platform’s stance on AI, only to be replaced by AI clones.—
Frank Landymore,
Futurism,
15 Jan. 2026
Noun
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French Finance Minister Roland Lescure shrugged off gyrations in the yen after chairing a meeting of his Group of Seven counterparts.—
William Horobin,
Bloomberg,
28 Jan. 2026
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The weekly drug is a predecessor to the company's top-selling obesity drug Zepbound and diabetes counterpart Mounjaro.—
Annika Kim Constantino,
CNBC,
28 Jan. 2026
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His picture topped newspapers across the country under headlines announcing that the killer had surrendered.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Jan. 2026
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When the financial picture feels fragmented (too many reports, too much noise, not enough forward-looking insight), leaders hesitate.—
Melissa Houston,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Regardless, this is a solid biography portrait with enough diaristic candor to compel a relisten to her greatest hits, in life and music.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
30 Jan. 2026
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The walls are adorned with black and white portraits of cinematic icons by Studio Harcourt and brass plaques that indicate their favorite tables.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
30 Jan. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Doppelgänger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/doppelg%C3%A4nger. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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