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as in pictures
a two-dimensional design intended to look like a person or thing
the wealthy businessman hired a leading artist to paint his likeness
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something or someone that strongly resembles another
why, you're the very likeness of your mother!
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Recent Examples of likenesses
Meanwhile, YouTube’s tool detecting unauthorized uses of creators’ likenesses is now in an open beta to members of YouTube Partner Program.
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Angela Yang, NBC news, 17 Sep. 2025
Persona vectors are thought to be relatively universal in the sense that major LLMs seem to employ the same or similar capacity, likely due to the overall likenesses in architecture and design.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
This includes shooting some sequences with live actors, with plans to use face and pose transfer techniques with AI tools to preserve the likenesses of the original actors in the movie.
—Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
The actors appear to have been chosen based on their likenesses alone.
—Sam Bodrojan, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
The controversy highlights the growing tension over AI misuse and the need for stronger protections around celebrity likenesses.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 30 Aug. 2025
Others nicknamed him ‘Henry’ because of the likenesses between his game and that of World Cup winner Thierry Henry.
—Phil Hay, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2025
First, our attorneys advised us against playing it because its use of likenesses of Michael Jackson and Spuds MacKenzie could leave us open to trademark infringement charges.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 18 Aug. 2025
This approach sidesteps ethical concerns around voice cloning and unauthorized use of actor likenesses, as all work is done with proper permissions and content rights.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 14 Aug. 2025
Angela Yang, NBC news, 17 Sep. 2025
Persona vectors are thought to be relatively universal in the sense that major LLMs seem to employ the same or similar capacity, likely due to the overall likenesses in architecture and design.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
This includes shooting some sequences with live actors, with plans to use face and pose transfer techniques with AI tools to preserve the likenesses of the original actors in the movie.
—Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
The actors appear to have been chosen based on their likenesses alone.
—Sam Bodrojan, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
The controversy highlights the growing tension over AI misuse and the need for stronger protections around celebrity likenesses.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 30 Aug. 2025
Others nicknamed him ‘Henry’ because of the likenesses between his game and that of World Cup winner Thierry Henry.
—Phil Hay, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2025
First, our attorneys advised us against playing it because its use of likenesses of Michael Jackson and Spuds MacKenzie could leave us open to trademark infringement charges.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 18 Aug. 2025
This approach sidesteps ethical concerns around voice cloning and unauthorized use of actor likenesses, as all work is done with proper permissions and content rights.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 14 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for likenesses
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The decision prompted social media users to post pictures of their cancellation receipts under the hashtags #CancelDisney and #CancelDisneyPlus.—
Reia Li,
USA Today,
20 Sep. 2025
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During the residency, fans could take pictures where Bad Bunny bagged groceries before finding fame.—
Valerie Trapp,
The Atlantic,
20 Sep. 2025
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What To Know China's Chang Guang Satellite Technology shared images taken by its Jilin-1 satellites on September 8, showing a Maxar Technologies WorldView Legion 2 satellite.—
Ryan Chan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
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He was arrested following a 33-hour manhunt after his parents recognized surveillance images of the suspect released by police and convinced him, with the help of a family friend, to turn himself in.—
Connor Greene,
Time,
17 Sep. 2025
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The maps are based on the Pew Research Center's publishing of several visual illustrations, based on its 2023-24 Religious Landscape Study, on Tuesday.—
Jordan King,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
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The 336-page hardcover book features 300 color illustrations and retails for $75.—
Lisa Lockwood,
Footwear News,
16 Sep. 2025
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Generations of scientists have dedicated their careers to sculpting increasingly sophisticated planetary replicas.—
Zack Savitsky,
Quanta Magazine,
15 Sep. 2025
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The paper also highlights the potential of digital twins — virtual patient replicas that allow doctors to simulate treatments before applying them in real life.—
Matthew Kayser,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
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Highlights include intimate portraits by Nan Goldin and a monochrome image of Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe during their hedonistic era in New York.—
Lee Sharrock,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Her posts around this time were more often portraits of the outsized characters that dominate conservative politics than about actual policy.—
Clare Malone,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The paper also highlights the potential of digital twins — virtual patient replicas that allow doctors to simulate treatments before applying them in real life.—
Matthew Kayser,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
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Cadence has expanded this technology beyond chip design towards creating digital twins of data centers including all the functional components.—
Thomas Coughlin,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
Noun
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This provision appears to not only ban depictions of trans people but could also potentially be applied to drag queens.—
Abby Monteil,
Them.,
16 Sep. 2025
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Liu directs heart-expanding, tender performances out of his leads, and the screenplay by Martyna Majok forgoes the maudlin or condescending notes of so many Hollywood depictions of immigration stories.—
Angelica Jade Bastién,
Vulture,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Brother Dusk detonates explosives that shatter the cryonic chamber of Cleon clones, bodies raining down in blood and glass, before plucking a single embryo from the wreckage to bait Demerzel’s deepest programming.—
JP Mangalindan,
Time,
12 Sep. 2025
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Weaver would return as Ripley in David Fincher's Alien 3 in 1992 and as clones of the character in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Alien Resurrection in 1997, though the Alien franchise has continued on.—
Carson Blackwelder,
PEOPLE,
9 Sep. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Likenesses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/likenesses. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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