as in image
something or someone that strongly resembles another
with the help of either movie magic or makeup, the actress appeared to be the spitting image of the queen
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Recent Examples of spitting image
We’re drawn to this super-padded Himosyber topper, which is a spitting image of.
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Kelsey Stewart, Travel + Leisure, 18 Jan. 2026
Now teenagers, Kate and Sparrow are spitting images of their parents and have occasionally appeared on the red carpet with Nicole and Joel.
—Vandana Pawa, PEOPLE, 15 Jan. 2026
There are moments this season when Jake will throw down a mind-bending slam, looking like the spitting image of his father.
—Mirin Fader, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
Gaia looked like the spitting image of her mom as the two smiled for photos together.
—Hannah Sacks, People.com, 8 Aug. 2025
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Kelsey Stewart, Travel + Leisure, 18 Jan. 2026
Now teenagers, Kate and Sparrow are spitting images of their parents and have occasionally appeared on the red carpet with Nicole and Joel.
—Vandana Pawa, PEOPLE, 15 Jan. 2026
There are moments this season when Jake will throw down a mind-bending slam, looking like the spitting image of his father.
—Mirin Fader, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
Gaia looked like the spitting image of her mom as the two smiled for photos together.
—Hannah Sacks, People.com, 8 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spitting image
Noun
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The images of that crash were shared widely online and caught Noah Williams' attention, triggering painful memories and taking him back to the day his own life changed forever.—
Karen Morfitt,
CBS News,
4 Apr. 2026
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Iranian officials told civilians to be on the lookout for survivors and have flooded social media with images that purport to show wreckage from the aircraft.—
Janet Loehrke,
USA Today,
4 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Self-healing concrete fits in well with ideas around sensor technology and digital twins – in which cracks in a structure could serve as a warning of damage and then repair themselves, needing little more than periodic checking.—
Srishti Gupta,
Interesting Engineering,
31 Mar. 2026
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In a cruel twist of fate, Cameron had to watch as his twin, Cayden Boozer, made the turnover that sealed the Blue Devils’ fate.—
Tim Rohan,
NBC news,
30 Mar. 2026
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The Hennepin County Attorney's Office charged 54-year-old James Reginal Willis and 28-year-old Garrett Christopher Willis Tuesday with two felony counts each of threats of violence and displaying replica firearms in connection to the confrontations on March 3.—
Stephen Swanson,
CBS News,
1 Apr. 2026
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reinstated the Army pilots responsible for flying a pair of helicopters by Kid Rock’s White House replica mansion in Nashville.—
Jessica Schladebeck,
New York Daily News,
1 Apr. 2026
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With Young looking to earn a long-term extension and push the Panthers forward in the NFC playoff picture, Pickett’s insight and experience could be valuable assets during the upcoming campaign.—
Mike Kaye
March 31,
Charlotte Observer,
31 Mar. 2026
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Well, that definitely paints a vivid picture.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
31 Mar. 2026
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The clone in question is a nod to an ongoing TikTok conspiracy theory that suggests Gomez was replaced by a body double or a clone after her kidney transplant in 2017.—
Chanel Vargas,
InStyle,
2 Apr. 2026
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The plot twist comes after a fateful rover crash, when the true nature of the operation is revealed; Sam is really a clone that's replaced every three years when his contract ends.—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
30 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Antimatter is like the mirror image of matter.—
Emma Gometz,
Scientific American,
25 Mar. 2026
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Indeed, in many ways, West’s performatively anti-white, unpatriotic, and cosmopolitan version of polyamory is the blue-state mirror image of tradwifery, which, in its various forms, can fetishize whiteness, nostalgic Americana, and (often Christian) nationalism.—
Tyler Austin Harper,
The Atlantic,
18 Mar. 2026
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The world demanded a simplified portrait; John provided it, and, after a while, the two merged.—
Jeffrey Eugenides,
New Yorker,
4 Apr. 2026
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Rector Simon Mainwaring poses for a portrait in the library at Egleston Hall at All Saints' Episcopal Church in Atlanta on Monday, March 23, 2026.—
Zachary Hansen,
AJC.com,
3 Apr. 2026
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Some were duplicates, so the final tally was 15.—
Phil Diehl,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
27 Mar. 2026
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Software engineer Alexey Grigorev recently watched an AI agent destroy his entire production database—wiping out years of course data after a setup error caused the system to delete the live environment instead of cleaning up duplicates.—
Alexei Oreskovic,
Fortune,
19 Mar. 2026
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“Spitting image.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spitting%20image. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.
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