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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
Participants begin with live actors in red dresses, then transition into VR where ghostly avatars, fragmented scenes of loss, and an uncanny doppelgänger encounter unfold.
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Charlie Fink, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
The directing duo’s last film, Ordinary Love (2019), was the tender study of a middle-age couple dealing with cancer, and, in a weird way, Saipan is its dark doppelganger.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2025
What follows is a little like a black-comedy riff on a scene from Breaking Bad or Dexter as the duo chop up the corpse of the Peacemaker doppelganger to cover up the accidental killing.
—Scott Meslow, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2025
After bringing out droves of doppelgangers for Adam Sandler, Jeremy Allen White and Timothée Chalamet, New York City has proven to be the right destination for celebrity look-alike contests.
—Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 21 Aug. 2025
Gants, also Gigi Hadid's doppelgänger, walked away with a $100,000 contract with Rimmel London cosmetics and earned a fashion spread in Paper magazine.
—James Mercadante, EW.com, 19 Aug. 2025
Two weeks later, Finn – Phoebe’s doppelganger – appeared and ran right to a rescuer, just like Phoebe had.
—Maryanne Dell, Oc Register, 16 Aug. 2025
But history also suggests that finding a political doppelganger will be insufficient.
—Tyler Jost, Foreign Affairs, 4 Aug. 2025
The doppelganger, Cagdas Halicilar, a former electrician, started embracing the similarities after he was constantly compared to Bezos by friends.
—Colson Thayer, People.com, 27 June 2025
Charlie Fink, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
The directing duo’s last film, Ordinary Love (2019), was the tender study of a middle-age couple dealing with cancer, and, in a weird way, Saipan is its dark doppelganger.
—Damon Wise, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2025
What follows is a little like a black-comedy riff on a scene from Breaking Bad or Dexter as the duo chop up the corpse of the Peacemaker doppelganger to cover up the accidental killing.
—Scott Meslow, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2025
After bringing out droves of doppelgangers for Adam Sandler, Jeremy Allen White and Timothée Chalamet, New York City has proven to be the right destination for celebrity look-alike contests.
—Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 21 Aug. 2025
Gants, also Gigi Hadid's doppelgänger, walked away with a $100,000 contract with Rimmel London cosmetics and earned a fashion spread in Paper magazine.
—James Mercadante, EW.com, 19 Aug. 2025
Two weeks later, Finn – Phoebe’s doppelganger – appeared and ran right to a rescuer, just like Phoebe had.
—Maryanne Dell, Oc Register, 16 Aug. 2025
But history also suggests that finding a political doppelganger will be insufficient.
—Tyler Jost, Foreign Affairs, 4 Aug. 2025
The doppelganger, Cagdas Halicilar, a former electrician, started embracing the similarities after he was constantly compared to Bezos by friends.
—Colson Thayer, People.com, 27 June 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for doppelgänger
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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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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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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
Noun
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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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PwC’s 2025 Global AI Jobs Barometer reports that jobs requiring AI skills pay an average of 56% more than their non-AI counterparts, and that the skill sets demanded in these roles are evolving 66% faster than in traditional jobs.—
Dr. Aviva Legatt,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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To break those down, The Athletic convened the following discussion between Dodgers beat writer Fabian Ardaya and his Padres counterpart, Dennis Lin.—
Dennis Lin,
New York Times,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Doppelgänger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/doppelg%C3%A4nger. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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