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Recent Examples of doppelgänger And then there are the cats—dozens of them, prowling or stoic doppelgangers of the real-life felines who roamed Abercrombie’s Hyde Park Victorian. Jeremy Lybarger, ARTnews.com, 26 Mar. 2025 In the show, Sarah Manning (Maslany) witnesses the death of doppelganger Beth Childs (also Maslany), and realises they — and all the others — were created via the sinister experiments of Project Leda. 12. Richard Edwards, Space.com, 26 Mar. 2025 According to Pike and Diaz, around 10 million people across platforms weighed in, most of whom agreed that Christine was essentially Scherzinger's doppelgänger. Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 7 Mar. 2025 This is fun sci-fi TV, doing twisty multiverse, evil-doppelgänger stuff really well. New Atlas, 6 Mar. 2025 In desperation, Elisabeth conceives, and is viciously destroyed by, her own younger, more bankable doppelgänger. Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025 The story line is primarily a way to explore Annie’s insecurities, with Hughie made to feel guilty and regretful about his dalliance with the doppelgänger instead of ever getting to process his own reaction to the revelation. Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 21 Feb. 2025 Examples of play, continued The doppelgänger Mel and Ilya, for their own reasons, stalk Heidi and Sky back to the hotel room where the Maenad and Dragon engage in carnal relations. Linda Codega, Them, 14 Feb. 2025 Was it written in the script that he’d be interviewed by a doppelgänger? Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 31 Jan. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for doppelgänger
Noun
  • This project marked Sidibe's return to acting after welcoming her twins with her husband.
    Hannah Sacks, People.com, 28 Apr. 2025
  • The twins worked together on screen again in Own Worst Enemy (2014), 7 Days: The Story of Blind Dave Heeley (2019), and Last Night in Soho (2021).
    Julia Emmanuele, EW.com, 27 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • These are part of a suite of 24 images based on an ancient Japanese agricultural calendar (made up of 24 micro-seasons).
    Tom Teicholz, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Hurts and Burrows — both wearing white — could be seen in one of the images holding hands while surrounded by candles, with a violinist pictured in the background.
    Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 23 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Front and center was a picture of Tatum and Williams holding hands, with the actor kissing the model's forehead.
    Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2025
  • William’s arrival to campus was met with a frenzied fanfare: A pack of photographers climbed over each other to get pictures of him and his father walking on the grounds.
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 29 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • More than 400 landscapes, portraits, still lifes and sculptures — from folk Art and the Hudson River School through the modernist movements — will be on view.
    Tanya Mohn, New York Times, 2 May 2025
  • The new Aspen is a little larger than the popular Carver, and can sit either landscape or portrait, depending on her photography preference.
    Adrienne So, Wired News, 1 May 2025
Noun
  • While major streaming platforms like Amazon’s Prime Video, Netflix and others have added sports to their rosters, some services, like Disney’s ESPN+ and direct-to-consumer counterparts of regional sports networks, are also offerings.
    Lillian Rizzo, CNBC, 23 Apr. 2025
  • In Harvard’s 2017 and 2020 youth polls, congressional Democrats had significantly higher approval ratings than their GOP counterparts or Trump.
    Jack Birle, The Washington Examiner, 23 Apr. 2025

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“Doppelgänger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/doppelg%C3%A4nger. Accessed 7 May. 2025.

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