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something or someone that strongly resembles another
at first glance these two mattresses may be look-alikes, but a comparison of their innards tells a different story
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Recent Examples of look-alikes
Today’s great photo is from Times photographer Christina House at a gathering of Marilyn Monroe look-alikes in downtown Palm Springs over the weekend in honor of what would have been the Hollywood icon’s 100th birthday.
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Los Angeles Times,
1 June 2026
Some of the celebrities look-alikes he’s already seen include Tia and Tamera Mowry, MGK, Shedeur Sanders and more.
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Kansas City Star,
29 Mar. 2026
Once inside, the possum apparently found a cozy spot among its plush look-alikes and settled in.
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Ryan Brennan,
Miami Herald,
24 Mar. 2026
What makes the ad special, however, is the bizarre bit of public performance art that preceded it and the look-alikes tailgate the company threw in San Francisco just hours before the big game.
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Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
6 Feb. 2026
Celebrity look-alikes have been around for decades, from Elvis tribute acts to pseudo-Marilyn Monroes.
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Amanda Montell,
PEOPLE,
1 Feb. 2026
Eminem has even filled his sets with look-alikes, from the MTV VMAs in the 2000s to the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards.
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Lucy Notarantonio,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Aug. 2025
Los Angeles Times,
1 June 2026
Some of the celebrities look-alikes he’s already seen include Tia and Tamera Mowry, MGK, Shedeur Sanders and more.
—
Kansas City Star,
29 Mar. 2026
Once inside, the possum apparently found a cozy spot among its plush look-alikes and settled in.
—
Ryan Brennan,
Miami Herald,
24 Mar. 2026
What makes the ad special, however, is the bizarre bit of public performance art that preceded it and the look-alikes tailgate the company threw in San Francisco just hours before the big game.
—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
6 Feb. 2026
Celebrity look-alikes have been around for decades, from Elvis tribute acts to pseudo-Marilyn Monroes.
—
Amanda Montell,
PEOPLE,
1 Feb. 2026
Eminem has even filled his sets with look-alikes, from the MTV VMAs in the 2000s to the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards.
—
Lucy Notarantonio,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for look-alikes
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Later pictures showed the structure being towed within the lagoon.
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Space-age music blared night-club-loud as pictures of birds, plants, and flowers cascaded down the walls.
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Other items in the store run from the inexpensive — like $5 collectible stickers and magnets — to the more lavish, such as official FIFA soccer balls for $200 and miniature replicas of the World Cup trophy for $250.
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Adair worked with the Knights’ graphic designer, Will Briggs, to translate his design onto the jerseys — replicas of which will be given out to the first 1,500 kids who attend Saturday night’s game.
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This is especially true for premium merchandise priced over $1,000, where buyers face the highest financial risk, the authors of the report said, adding that full-body rendering has emerged as the clear consumer preference, capturing 80 percent of user engagement over basic AI twins.
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And, if no team could, how would the twins respond to being separated for the first time since their zygote days?
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Vital to the Southers’ battle plan is the use of genetic infantrymen, a battalion of clones whose thoughts can be downloaded on to a chip and reused if the host body is destroyed.
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Statistically, Llamas and Kyles are virtual clones in some categories.
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In February, the FBI released images showing an armed person at Nancy Guthrie's front door tampering with the camera prior to her disappearance, but the suspect in the images has not been identified.
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One series displayed different images depending on the viewer’s position relative to the piece.
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In an April 9 letter to their downstream counterparts, the governors of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming warned that using water from their smaller reservoirs to bolster Lake Powell risks jobs and tourism in their states.
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Elsewhere, multiple senior bankers at Western lenders argued that the continent’s fragmented financial markets undermined its financial might, at a cost to European startups in the tech and energy sectors that were consequently unable to compete for financing to the extent of US counterparts.
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Alongside artist and archival producer Hudson Campbell, who created oil portraits of the four central figures, the team leaned on AI to add animation, movement, expression, and immediacy to people whose likenesses were absent from history.
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The Pompadour Suite is theatrical in its own way, with dramatic portraits, antique furnishings, and oak floors.
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Datasets with issues like poor formatting, inaccuracies, inconsistencies, biases and duplicates are inherently bad.
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The free app reports on duplicates in your photo gallery and on images that are too dark to be useful.
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“Look-alikes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/look-alikes. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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