resemblances

plural of resemblance

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Recent Examples of resemblances To make the resemblances convincing, Gethings recruited participants by complementing their standout features and promising to accentuate them with the help of hair and makeup stylists in a studio setting. Pat Mueller, USA Today, 30 May 2026 Most of the film’s other resemblances, of which there are many, prove less distressing. David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 28 Apr. 2026 The market cadence of the past few months has some uncomfortable resemblances to the early 2025 path leading up to that tariff-panic crescendo. Michael Santoli, CNBC, 30 Mar. 2026 David Leach, the head of security, noted that a training program offered by the utility for technician jobs bears resemblances to Oakland’s cadet initiative. Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 21 Jan. 2026 For all the resemblances between the ancient incarceration system and our own, the differences are real. Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2025 Further investigation into a chalk underdrawing of ‘The Night Watch,’ using macro X-ray florescence scans, showed even more resemblances between the two dogs. Senay Boztas, CNN Money, 25 Sep. 2025 Some of these ancient microbes show strong resemblances to modern pathogens. Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 2 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for resemblances
similarities
Noun
  • Ferrell, Henchy and David Gordon Green all previously worked on Eastbound & Down, a sports comeback series with enough superficial similarities to underline how toothless The Hawk and especially its characters are.
    Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 16 July 2026
  • Some people may see similarities in two faces other than the metrics used in the study.
    René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 15 July 2026

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“Resemblances.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/resemblances. Accessed 21 Jul. 2026.

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