spitting image

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Recent Examples of spitting image The couple's eldest child, Levi, who is the spitting image of his father, looked on while his father got to work. Stephanie Giang-Paunon, Fox News, 24 Jan. 2025 Among all of the stars on the red carpet were two lucky celebrity doppelgängers who made waves at lookalike contests earlier this year: Miles Mitchell, who is the spitting image of A Complete Unknown star Timothée Chalamet, and Maxwell Braunstein, a mirror of Hit Man actor Glen Powell. Luke Chinman, People.com, 6 Jan. 2025 Princess Charlotte looked the spitting image of her mother, also wearing a Christmassy red coat. Isaac Bickerstaff, Glamour, 6 Dec. 2024 Back in May, Kardashian shared a throwback video that had many fans believing that her daughter was the spitting image of her. Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 24 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for spitting image
Recent Examples of Synonyms for spitting image
Noun
  • Any federal agent using Clearview or an alternative can take the same footage and run facial images to find matches across photos scraped from social sites.
    Thomas Brewster, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
  • But there are so many different pieces inside, so many essays, so many images.
    Kei Lim June 9, Literary Hub, 9 June 2025
Noun
  • Changing the twins to look nothing like one another actually leads to one of the best jokes in the film.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 14 June 2025
  • The twins' father was a cook at the local hospital.
    Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 13 June 2025
Noun
  • The strike hinges on a single issue: SAG-AFTRA’s strong concerns regarding consent and compensation for the use of AI replicas.
    Jennifer Maas, Variety, 10 June 2025
  • Infantino has appeared at Trump's rallies, dined with him at Davos, and even presented him with a replica of the FIFA Club World Cup trophy — now displayed in the Oval Office.
    Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 June 2025
Noun
  • The upload continued with an intimate picture of Chris cradling a baby to his chest, a snap of the family coloring at a kitchen table, and one of Chris and his two daughters with a horse.
    Ingrid Vasquez, People.com, 16 June 2025
  • There was a picture on somebody’s Instagram with a side-by-side of him and me.
    Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 16 June 2025
Noun
  • Fruit is sourced using a blend of Dijon clone grapes grown in the Napa Valley and harvested during the last three weeks of September 2022.
    Mike DeSimone, Robb Report, 12 June 2025
  • Jimmy Kimmel is calling out Donald Trump after the president re-posted a conspiracy theory over the weekend that claimed Joe Biden was executed in 2020 and replaced with robot clones.
    Emlyn Travis Published, EW.com, 3 June 2025
Noun
  • In what seems to be the dark mirror image to The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, V.E. Schwab intertwines stories of three different women separated by seas and centuries: María in Santo Domingo de la Calzada (1532), Charlotte in London (1827), and Alice in Boston (2019).
    Natalie Zutter June 2, Literary Hub, 2 June 2025
  • Peering into the closet isn’t important only as a way of exploring the dark mirror image of the liberatory history of coming out.
    Duane Michals Eric Jason Martin Krish Seenivasan Zak Mouton, New York Times, 12 May 2025
Noun
  • The first one featured a portrait of President Harry Truman as man of the year for his decision to bomb Japan.
    Carol Sutton Lewis, Scientific American, 18 June 2025
  • Highlighting the brand’s first Aqua Terra timepiece in 30mm, the campaign features portraits of Ariana DeBose, Ashley Graham, Tems, Danielle Marsha, Marisa Abela and Sunday Rose Kidman Urban, the eldest daughter of Nicole Kidman and country singer Keith Urban.
    Julia Teti, Footwear News, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • The ovum carrying the new genetic material is allowed to develop into an embryo and then transferred into the womb of a surrogate, which ultimately gives birth to an exact duplicate of the animal from which the donor cell was taken.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 7 Apr. 2025
  • A lot of time and money is invested in ensuring your home makes a first impression that represents the style and personality of those living inside it, and having a duplicate on the street makes the neighborhood feel more cookie-cutter.
    Quincy Bulin, Southern Living, 17 Mar. 2025

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“Spitting image.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spitting%20image. Accessed 24 Jun. 2025.

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