mirror images

noun

plural of mirror image
as in pictures
something or someone that strongly resembles another looking at the idealistic intern, the elderly physician could not help but see the mirror image of himself 40 years earlier

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Recent Examples of mirror images In the bottlenecks that threaten their dominance, the two superpowers are mirror images. — Niall Ferguson, Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2026 In addition to developing better medicines or perfumes, deciphering the mirror images of molecules can help scientists understand the chemical architecture of life, said chemist Holden Thorp, editor-in-chief of the journal Science. — Arkansas Online, 8 Oct. 2026 The chemistry prize recognized two scientists for untangling mysterious mirror images in molecules, a discovery that has been used to develop countless drugs. — ABC News, 8 Oct. 2026 This is a phenomenon known as chirality, from the Greek word for hand (as hands are mirror images of one another). — Annalisa Merelli, STAT, 7 Oct. 2026 The narrator spends years assembling the truth of this death, concealed by his family, and discovers that Calcutta and Dhaka experienced those riots as mirror images of each other. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 July 2026 Foreign Tongues was built around leftover material from the Hackney Diamonds sessions, and the two albums are such mirror images of one another that they may as well have been released together, Use Your Illusion-style. — Stuart Berman, Pitchfork, 13 July 2026 Parker, who also shares son James, 23, with husband Matthew Broderick, previously pushed back on the stereotype that her twins are mirror images of each other. — Lara Walsh, InStyle, 23 June 2026 Also, the two opposing narratives were mirror images of each other in volume and posting cadence, suggesting that the same culprit may have been amplifying both sides of the fight. — Lane Brown, Vulture, 15 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mirror images
  1. pictures
  2. images
  3. twins
  4. replicas
  5. clones
  6. portraits
Noun
  • Kneeland said the photographs have become popular backdrops for customers taking pictures.
    — J.M. Banks November 10, Kansas City Star, 10 Nov. 2026
  • Rising stars from The Body stuck together, even snapping pictures in front of their nearby billboard.
    — Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 10 Nov. 2026
Definition of pictures
Noun
  • Mobile service vehicles for the Miami-Dade Tax Collector’s Office feature jumbo images of Tax Collector Dariel Fernandez, a Republican who was also elected in 2024.
    — Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 12 Nov. 2026
  • But as far as photographing on the street, [those images] are marked by a certain distance from people or solitary figures in a vast landscape, that sort of thing.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2026
Definition of images
Noun
  • At the center of the system is Mundo, which converts photographs of hotel rooms, corridors, and laundry facilities into interactive digital twins.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 13 Nov. 2026
  • Four years after Rolnick was illegally taken from his mother’s arms, his brothers, twins Travis and Chris, suffered the same fate and were also adopted by an American couple.
    — Nayara Batschke, Los Angeles Times, 12 Nov. 2026
Definition of twins
Noun
  • Coordinating updates across replicas increases communication overhead.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 3 Nov. 2026
  • As part of the model’s Halloween costume, her engagement ring was stacked with replicas of her gold and diamond infinity wedding bands.
    — Erin Clack, PEOPLE, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of replicas
Noun
  • If the original creators get paid, there's much less reason to take issue with clones.
    — Ruben Circelli, PC Magazine, 29 Oct. 2026
  • Since its earliest days, the video game industry has been built on developers creating clones of competing games, with varying levels of originality and varying levels of enforcement from game platforms.
    — Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of clones
Noun
  • Comic portraits, cruel melodrama and humane charity of heartbreaking tenderness explode onto the teeming streets of Victorian London.
    — Ut Community Press, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Nov. 2026
  • Rain fell as families wept beside the coffins, and officers held portraits of their fallen colleagues.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 8 Nov. 2026
Definition of portraits

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“Mirror images.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mirror%20images. Accessed 14 Nov. 2026.

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