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as in friend
a person who has a strong liking for and trust in another
over the years the state's other senator became his alter ego as well as his political ally
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as in image
something or someone that strongly resembles another
the hero of the novel is clearly the author's alter ego, right down to his receding hairline and middle-aged paunch
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In the new film, Phoenix will return as Fleck, the struggling, mentally ill clown and stand-up comedian who’s driven to madness and the warm embrace of his evil alter ego, Joker.
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Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2024
The book sits squarely between Junkie and Naked Lunch in chronicling the experiences with opioid addiction of Burroughs’ alter ego, William Lee.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2024
The Great Hartnett Resurgence continues with Trap, directed by M. Night Shyamalan and starring Josh Hartnett as a father/serial killer, who accompanies his teen daughter to a pop concert that's really just a front to catch his murderous alter ego, The Butcher.
—Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 4 Aug. 2024
Rand had come home, and that home was the groupthink atmosphere that her alter ego, Alisa Rosenbaum, had fled.
—Marco Roth, Washington Post, 30 July 2024
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Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2024
The book sits squarely between Junkie and Naked Lunch in chronicling the experiences with opioid addiction of Burroughs’ alter ego, William Lee.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2024
The Great Hartnett Resurgence continues with Trap, directed by M. Night Shyamalan and starring Josh Hartnett as a father/serial killer, who accompanies his teen daughter to a pop concert that's really just a front to catch his murderous alter ego, The Butcher.
—Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 4 Aug. 2024
Rand had come home, and that home was the groupthink atmosphere that her alter ego, Alisa Rosenbaum, had fled.
—Marco Roth, Washington Post, 30 July 2024
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