as in image
something or someone that strongly resembles another
looking at the idealistic intern, the elderly physician could not help but see the mirror image of himself 40 years earlier
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Recent Examples of mirror image
China’s record trade surplus of almost $1 trillion last year has a nearly perfect mirror image on the other side of the world: an American trade deficit last year that is expected to clock in at around $1 trillion.
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Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2025
The linker cell–type death is in some sense almost like a mirror image of apoptosis.
—Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 5 Dec. 2024
For once, the top 10 movies on iTunes and Fandango aren’t close to a mirror image of each other.
—Tom Brueggemann, IndieWire, 2 Dec. 2024
Always seems to put a shift in but as the article says, when somebody else misses, the reaction is mirror image to the reaction when Murphy misses.
—George Caulkin, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
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Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2025
The linker cell–type death is in some sense almost like a mirror image of apoptosis.
—Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 5 Dec. 2024
For once, the top 10 movies on iTunes and Fandango aren’t close to a mirror image of each other.
—Tom Brueggemann, IndieWire, 2 Dec. 2024
Always seems to put a shift in but as the article says, when somebody else misses, the reaction is mirror image to the reaction when Murphy misses.
—George Caulkin, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mirror image
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But despite the media blitz projecting images of an unrelenting nationwide sweep, so far, the deportation of migrants is well below the monthly average during the Biden administration, and there is little evidence that ICE is arresting or detaining any more people than usual.—
Lauren Villagran,
USA TODAY,
23 Feb. 2025
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Local television stations broadcast images from the crash scene showing the bus, its left side completely destroyed in the collision.—
Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports,
arkansasonline.com,
22 Feb. 2025
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The twins first joined forces when Taylor signed a three-year, $33 million deal prior to the 2022 season, becoming the fourth set of twins to be teammates in league history.—
Justice delos Santos,
The Mercury News,
13 Feb. 2025
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The most concrete result of therapy has been Milena’s acknowledgment that childbirth was an agonizing experience; her slow-burning resentment of the ungrateful twins has been building ever since.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
13 Feb. 2025
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One of her graduate students, Katherine Shark, made a replica of the Molyneux gown out of muslin which is part of the exhibit as well.—
Rachel Elspeth Gross,
Forbes,
21 Feb. 2025
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The museum will feature interactive exhibitions and life-sized replicas based on da Vinci’s drawings and sketches.—
Francesca Aton,
ARTnews.com,
21 Feb. 2025
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Conclusion Guy Bisson’s analysis paints a picture of a film industry adapting to a new normal.—
Jamie Lang,
Variety,
16 Feb. 2025
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And consider this: Only two of the last 10 BAFTA winners for best film went on to win the Oscar for best picture — Nomadland in 2021 and Oppenheimer in 2024.—
Paul Grein,
Billboard,
16 Feb. 2025
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This sparks a plan, which comes together at Parker’s plant daddy paradise of a house, where the plant daddy himself suggests that a wedding would be a great venue to clone Roman’s Palm Pilot.—
Sara Netzley,
EW.com,
4 Feb. 2025
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Residing on hillside slopes and gently rolling valleys surrounding the stately medieval village of Montalcino, vineyards in the Brunello di Montalcino DOCG are home to a clone of Sangiovese known locally as Brunello, which is a diminutive of the Italian word for brown.—
Mike DeSimone and Jeff Jenssen,
Robb Report,
3 Feb. 2025
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The second season of Robert and Michelle King's brilliant, surrealist portrait of life in the Age of Trump often served as a real-time reflection of everything its viewers were feeling: paranoia, rage, disorientation, fear, disbelief, and of course, derangement.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
19 Feb. 2025
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The singer-songwriter’s vivid portrait of a turbulent life.—
The California Independent Booksellers Alliance,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Feb. 2025
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Our 1949 and 1950 trips were duplicates of the 1948 hunt.—
Tom Stacer,
Outdoor Life,
20 Feb. 2025
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This data will mitigate the ongoing Medicaid duplicate discount issues by allowing J&J to more effectively track and prevent duplicate discounts.—
Rita Numerof,
Forbes,
22 Nov. 2024
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“Mirror image.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mirror%20image. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.
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