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
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Noun
  • Flagship boutiques from Milan and Paris lined the promenades, conjuring images of home.
    Natalie Hoberman, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
  • The 25 kilos of drugs were wrapped in packaging featuring the iconic gun-brandishing cartoon character, the Walton County Sheriff's Office said in a social media post, which included images of the cocaine.
    July 1, CBS News, 1 July 2025
Noun
  • Map The Workflow With A Digital Twin Create a digital twin of your agency’s workflow before new hires start.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
  • The Destination Earth digital twins are replicas of Earth systems used to monitor, simulate and predict the interaction between natural phenomena and human activities.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • Its rebirth began as a digital model in The Golf Club video game and was brought to life in the sandy soil of central Wisconsin—now a near-exact replica.
    Tim Corlett, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
  • In collaboration with The Intel Lab, Orion Intel created a 3D replica of the plant.
    Jeff Goertzen, Oc Register, 22 June 2025
Noun
  • A week filled with fun videos of puppies trying to master the stairs and a friendly doggy neighbor making his rounds brightened our social media timelines, but a few of our readers' pet videos and pictures stood out.
    Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 June 2025
  • Paola Jaramillo, the co-founder and executive director of Enlace Latino NC, a nonprofit Spanish-language digital news outlet covering North Carolina, painted a similar picture.
    Graciela Mochkofsky, New Yorker, 28 June 2025
Noun
  • The appeal is built on two ideas: 1) the amazing feat of using prehistoric DNA to clone new dinosaurs; and 2) the terrifying prospect of those dinosaurs behaving like, well, dinosaurs (namely the carnivorous ones).
    Will Harris, EW.com, 27 June 2025
  • Under the pressures of fame and parasocial demands, pop star Poppy relinquishes control to Aura, an AI clone trained on her past content.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • From Sean Bean’s 006, Alec Trevelyan, in Goldeneye (1995) to Javier Bardem’s Silva in Skyfall, former agents have a history of turning up as formidable (and deliciously played) mirror images of Bond.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2025
  • This series is a matchup of teams that are near mirror images offensively and defensively, near the top nationally in most statistical categories.
    Matt Jones, Arkansas Online, 11 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • To her, these monochromatic portraits bolster an African aesthetic due to their classic feel that stands the test of time.
    Ugonnaora Owoh, Essence, 30 June 2025
  • The couple appeared to be the portrait of perfection until February 2024, when Williams filed for divorce — seemingly out of the blue and just as her return to The Real Housewives of Atlanta was announced.
    Dave Quinn, People.com, 28 June 2025
Noun
  • Left with almost nothing, these duplicates have built an Old West-style society from the rubble of their former existence.
    Josh Weiss, Forbes.com, 9 June 2025
  • At issue was a high school administrator mistakenly typing the wrong class name on Richardson’s transcript, creating an accidental duplicate.
    Brendan Quinn, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025

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“Spitting image.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spitting%20image. Accessed 7 Jul. 2025.

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