MIRROR IMAGE Synonyms: 37 Similar and Opposite Words

mirror image

noun

Definition of mirror image

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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 If Mavis is the tire-and-service empire, Driven is its mirror image across oil changes, repair, and collision work. — Andrew P. Collins, The Drive, 23 July 2026 George was his father’s mirror image during his own Wimbledon debut, which came in 2022. — Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 22 July 2026 Last year, the Prince and Princess of Wales celebrated George's 12th birthday with a photo of him looking like a mirror image of his father. — Jennifer Hassan, USA Today, 22 July 2026 Foreign Tongues was built around leftover material from the Hackney Diamonds sessions, and the two albums are such mirror images of one another that they may as well have been released together, Use Your Illusion-style. — Stuart Berman, Pitchfork, 13 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for mirror image

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Noun

But there is a deeper question of why a modern tech company, especially an AI company, would need to soften their image with cotton and canvas.

— T.M. Brown, CNN Money, 17 Aug. 2026
Granted, save for one image on a TV screen, no one wears a Green Lantern mask or outfit in the Lanterns pilot, but the wheels of its story have been in motion for decades by the time its premise unfolds.

— Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of image

Noun

Women carrying twins or more babies at once also had substantially higher rates than those carrying one baby.

— Faye Chiu, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026
Taken together, these inputs—real geometry, real traffic, and each vehicle’s live GPS position—constitute what network researchers call a digital twin of the urban environment.

— IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of twin

Noun

Quotes from Yankee greats make up the park’s signage, and Elston Howard Field was created as a replica of a stadium that stood for 85 years.

— Sam Blum, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2026
There is a replica that was made for the Larry David series by designer Christina Mongini, Sweet reported.

— Ted Johnson, Deadline, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of replica

Noun

In practice, Ogunyemi argues, only a small number of people may regularly take advantage of an open-door policy, leaving leaders with an incomplete picture of what is happening across the organization.

— Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, Dorothea Lange’s 1936 picture of migrant Florence Owens Thompson and her children, is widely regarded as one of the most iconic photographs of the Dust Bowl period of the Great Depression.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of picture

Noun

Kristinka Lazar, for example, used the time as an artistic residency to create a collection of paintings called The Gift of Being Seen, featuring 45 portraits of local villagers.

— Liz Provencher, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Aug. 2026
Watermelon was founded in 2024 by brothers Badie and Hamza Ali to present more complex portraits of Palestinians and Arabs.

— Brent Lang, IndieWire, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of portrait

Noun

But, in the event of a glitch, transporter rooms effectively become highly sophisticated 3D printers, creating duplicates indistinguishable from the original beamee.

— Richard Edwards, Space.com, 13 Aug. 2026
The message then claims $8,250 has already disappeared and warns that a duplicate $8,250 charge will be approved in 35 minutes.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 10 Aug. 2026

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