as in mirror
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 glass
Like Alice through the looking glass, I was ushered ever deeper into its passageways.
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Kian Tajbakhsh, The Atlantic, 27 June 2025
Alice’s experience reflects something deep about our own universe: Everything is not the same through the looking glass.
—Zack Savitsky, Wired News, 22 June 2025
The curving strip is like Lewis Carroll’s looking glass.
—Book Marks
june 20, Literary Hub, 20 June 2025
Comparatively speaking, the looking glass world of Songs of the Jabberwock is remarkably grounded.
—Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
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Kian Tajbakhsh, The Atlantic, 27 June 2025
Alice’s experience reflects something deep about our own universe: Everything is not the same through the looking glass.
—Zack Savitsky, Wired News, 22 June 2025
The curving strip is like Lewis Carroll’s looking glass.
—Book Marks
june 20, Literary Hub, 20 June 2025
Comparatively speaking, the looking glass world of Songs of the Jabberwock is remarkably grounded.
—Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
See All Example Sentences for looking glass
Recent Examples of Synonyms for looking glass
mirror
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Her unfinished palace becomes a mirror to a culture that mistakes accumulation for meaning.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
10 Nov. 2025
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Max Olson is writer-director and video artist based in New York & Los Angeles whose work aims to hold up a mirror to the restrictive structures of our world with an eye toward transcendence.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
10 Nov. 2025
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