SPITTING IMAGES Synonyms: 37 Similar and Opposite Words

spitting images

noun

plural of spitting image

as in pictures

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 images The pair are spitting images of each other at Balmoral Castle in Scotland. — Kate Hogan, PEOPLE, 21 Apr. 2026

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Noun

But the sight of a man sleeping atop the shelter next to a shopping cart caught the attention of onlookers, some of whom pulled out their phones to take pictures, as first reported by KTLA.

— Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026
Troublesome Creek, Kentucky, overflowed, destroying pictures of the late 13-year-old boy whom Campbell helped raise — and just about everything else in her home.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of pictures

Noun

Gorgoni shot his images in the snow, endowing Shift with a stark graphic identity devoid of human occupancy.

— Jeffrey Weiss, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
In March, the company debuted Luma Agents, which can execute creative work across text, images, video, and audio on behalf of studios, marketing teams, and agencies.

— John Kell, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of images

Noun

That her means of exit is abandoning her newborn twins is less than sympathetic, but in a different era Cathy would have options beyond a domesticity that never suited her in the first place.

— Alison Herman, Variety, 1 Oct. 2026
The Trask twins have grown up with the lie that their mother died, and while Cal hides his wounds from that absence, Aron doesn’t.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of twins

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Most of the historic buildings and structures on Naper Settlement’s 13-acre campus are replicas of old buildings or were moved from their original locations and brought to the museum.

— Carolyn Stein, Chicago Tribune, 25 Sep. 2026
In the public cloud, one patient or customer record can spread into replicas, logs, embeddings, feature stores, caches and model checkpoints.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of replicas

Noun

One of the clones, Antonia, has done what her counterpart has failed to do — produce a surviving lineage of ferrets.

— Shi En Kim, AZCentral.com, 21 Sep. 2026
Scheungraber says DoppelCart shops mimic 44,182 different brands, with a median of two clones for each brand.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 18 Sep. 2026

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