FACSIMILES Synonyms: 73 Similar and Opposite Words

facsimiles

noun

plural of facsimile

as in pictures

something or someone that strongly resembles another the family resemblance is so strong that the boy is virtually a pint-size facsimile of his father

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as in copies

something that is made to look exactly like something else this is not an antique copy of the Declaration of Independence but a modern facsimile

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Recent Examples of facsimiles But there’s always the risk that the variations become lifeless facsimiles. — Will Pritchard, Pitchfork, 8 Aug. 2026 Seventeen were replaced with reproductions or facsimiles, while three were taken off view. — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 6 Aug. 2026 Handwritten Song Manuscripts by Paul McCartney – A collection of facsimiles of handwritten lyrics by McCartney throughout the 1970s. — Jem Aswad, Variety, 12 May 2026 Drawing at least in part on information from Chalker’s defectors, the Pentagon constructed life-size underground facsimiles of Iranian nuclear facilities where the scientists had worked, attempting to duplicate even the thickness of the walls. — David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026 The Carter Museum also partnered with the Fort Worth History Center to provide a number of archival materials, photographs, and facsimiles of the Como Weekly, a Black newspaper in the Lake Como community that ran from 1940 until 1986. — Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Mar. 2026 The installation reproduces local KGB archives on Stalin and facsimiles of historical artifacts of the 1960s placed around an AR reconstruction of Buddha in Nirvana, a forty-three-foot-long, 1,600-year-old clay statue of a reclining Buddha excavated in Tajikistan in the late ’60s. — Anel Rakhimzhanova, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2026 McCarthy moved to his current studio in 2012, and around then, bought land out in the Tehachapi Mountains to serve as Wild West backdrops, not unlike the early film studios buying up tumbleweed stables in Topanga to serve as facsimiles of one-horse towns to shoot westerns. — Nate Freeman, Vanity Fair, 25 Feb. 2026 After spending years mostly directing his own projects, usually to middling reviews, Clooney has recently turned in a couple of performances that felt like pale facsimiles of former glories, in the rom-com Ticket to Paradise and the action-thriller Wolfs. — David Sims, The Atlantic, 14 Nov. 2025

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Noun

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

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However, the Daily Mail reported that on Monday a truck carrying copies was travelling between a printing plant and a warehouse in the Netherlands when it was intercepted while parked in a lay-by, with four copies of the book mysteriously stolen.

— K.J. Yossman, Variety, 17 Sep. 2026
Volunteers are also encouraged to submit a volunteer waiver online before the event, but paper copies will be available on the day of the cleanup as well.

— Alison Gibson, Sacbee.com, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of copies

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

Definition of replicas

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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

Earlier this year, Detroit Institute of Arts director Salvador Salort-Pons, a scholar on Velázquez who is curating an exhibition on portraits of the Count-Duke of Olivares, published his findings in the Museo Prado’s ARS Magazine.

— Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 23 Sep. 2026
The portraits will put a smile on any dog lover’s face, but Friedman’s favorite part is hearing people talk about their dog.

— Cody Godwin, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2026

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