as in image
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 image
The scene had to be carefully framed after the team built a mirror image of the bathroom with a body double for Redmayne.
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Beatrice Verhoeven, HollywoodReporter, 18 Aug. 2025
Words that mean mirror image or clone.
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
The Four’s true archenemy, Richards’s scientific nemesis and mirror image Doctor Doom, is absent in First Steps but will appear in a sequel, giving the world’s largest entertainment machine another crack at the depth that often eludes it.
—Derek Robertson, The Washington Examiner, 8 Aug. 2025
The task force is a mirror image of a similar group overseeing the federal preparations for next year’s World Cup in the United States.
—Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 5 Aug. 2025
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Beatrice Verhoeven, HollywoodReporter, 18 Aug. 2025
Words that mean mirror image or clone.
—Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
The Four’s true archenemy, Richards’s scientific nemesis and mirror image Doctor Doom, is absent in First Steps but will appear in a sequel, giving the world’s largest entertainment machine another crack at the depth that often eludes it.
—Derek Robertson, The Washington Examiner, 8 Aug. 2025
The task force is a mirror image of a similar group overseeing the federal preparations for next year’s World Cup in the United States.
—Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 5 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mirror image
Noun
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States that sell specialty plates can prohibit images such as the Confederate flag, the Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision.—
Maureen Groppe,
USA Today,
1 Sep. 2025
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The team returned a year later with more advanced, color cameras to record every inch of the wreckage, including the ship’s swimming pool, grand staircase and bow, generating iconic images still familiar today.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN Money,
31 Aug. 2025
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The twins have increasingly relied on silhouettes that consist of a strip tube top or bandeau top, a tiny miniskirt, and a long, layered jacket, and once again, both brothers are doing the same thing.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025
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Though Twinless is a movie all about twins, writer-director and star James Sweeney is not a twin himself.—
Barry Levitt,
Time,
5 Sep. 2025
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Creator @tinalemac shared her step-by-step process for transforming a plain IKEA mirror into a high-end replica using nothing more than tin foil and air-dry clay.—
Elizabeth Fogarty,
Better Homes & Gardens,
7 Sep. 2025
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Acutis' tomb in Assisi—his body displayed in a wax replica and dressed in casual clothes and sneakers—has become a major pilgrimage site, and relics associated with him have toured internationally.—
Jordan King,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Sep. 2025
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Now, what’s wrong with that picture?—
Jamie McIntyre,
The Washington Examiner,
5 Sep. 2025
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There was a sharp spike in job cuts during August, new data shows, as employers shed staff due to a worsening economic picture.—
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Sep. 2025
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But the clues as to what was happening were written on the images, allowing mission personnel to experiment on a clone of the camera, in a laboratory setting.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
3 Sep. 2025
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By offering personalized engagement, clones build audiences, generate mailing lists, and drive product sales in a way traditional media cannot.—
Tim Bajarin,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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The seemingly unassuming coming-of-ager – a sunny portrait of happy high-school adolescence in Seoul – builds in complexity as a vision of livewire student’s Joo-in’s courage and resilience in the face of trauma, unknown and then misinterpreted by her equally young classmates.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
6 Sep. 2025
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The portrait museum has a dizzying array of galleries depicting everything from Old Hollywood to 17th-century Indigenous Americans.—
BrieAnna J. Frank,
USA Today,
6 Sep. 2025
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The company suggest that data inherited from legacy systems is often outdated, riddled with duplicates, inconsistencies, or poorly structured coding frameworks.—
Adrian Bridgwater,
Forbes.com,
26 Aug. 2025
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Our review of these records suggests these types of duplicates are uncommon.—
Pratheek Rebala,
ProPublica,
21 Aug. 2025
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“Mirror image.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mirror%20image. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.
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