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looking glasses

noun

plural of looking glass

as in mirrors

a smooth or polished surface that forms images by reflection always remember that the image is reversed in the looking glass

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Recent Examples of looking glasses As Stevie Wonder’s eponymous 1972 hit suggests, there’s something specifically ominous about a 13-month-old baby that puts it in league with the bad juju of falling ladders and broken looking glasses. — Kat Chen, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Aug. 2026 On one lamp in the studio, tentacles hold up cylindrical copper spires with submarine-style looking glasses to reveal a small bulb inside. — Christopher Buchanan, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2026

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mirrors

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At the same time, the works are all handsomely printed and framed with black mirrors.

— Hilton Als, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
Despite a market infrastructure that in many ways mirrors conventional methods for investing in stocks and bonds, there isn't a network of brokerages or regulatory guardrails around TCGs and non-sports cards.

— Bob Woods, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2026

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looking glasses

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