likenesses

noun

plural of likeness
1
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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2
as in images
something or someone that strongly resembles another why, you're the very likeness of your mother!

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Recent Examples of likenesses By participating in the event, attendees consent to the use of their likenesses. — Laura Sirikul, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026 Also fascinating were their contrasting likenesses, dark against light housed in the same being, a human eclipse. — Literary Hub, 20 May 2026 Including late actors’ likenesses in films is becoming an emerging phenomenon. — Angela Yang, NBC news, 30 June 2026 The case was settled and ultimately helped establish new protections for actors regarding the unauthorized commercial use of their likenesses. — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 1 July 2026 In the finale, however, while going through the mail, Jimmy discovers the company has been secretly making millions by selling the voices and digital likenesses of their dead clients. — Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 29 May 2026 Some creatives are concerned that the technology could displace jobs; others worry that their likenesses are being used to train AI models without their permission or compensation. — Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2026 Many of the companies that offer services to safeguard people’s likenesses do so at a steep cost, requiring tens of thousands in a bid for individuals to secure their identity from AI’s potential misappropriation. — Corbin Bolies, Variety, 29 June 2026 The location, behind the Sheraton Hotel, already hosts the likenesses of restaurateurs Lina Fat, Biba Caggiano and Randy Paragary, and food connoisseur Darrell Corti. — Sacbee.com, 1 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for likenesses
  1. pictures
  2. images
  3. portraits
  4. replicas
  5. illustrations
  6. twins
  7. depictions
  8. clones
Noun
  • Other pictures on unofficial Telegram channels showed residents crowding into underground stations.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 2 July 2026
  • Ranging from the film pioneer Georges Méliès all the way through 2024’s Anora, Thomson’s survey covers silent pictures, the talkies, the studio era, the New Hollywood, and the age of streaming.
    — Michael O’Donnell, The Atlantic, 2 July 2026
Definition of pictures
Noun
  • Ukraine has carried out major drone strikes on Russia’s two largest cities, embarrassing the Kremlin with images of black plumes of smoke that circulated widely online, despite regulations restricting their publication.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 1 July 2026
  • Second, brighter satellites also create streaks in telescope images that mar observations.
    — Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 1 July 2026
Definition of images
Noun
  • The women’s portraits did not contain SynthID watermarks, but an AI detection tool flagged them as containing synthetic elements.
    — Leah Asmelash, CNN Money, 3 July 2026
  • Many museums around the world, including the Met, the Getty, and the Musée d’Orsay, own examples of his genre scenes, landscapes, and portraits.
    — Leigh Anne Miller, ARTnews.com, 2 July 2026
Definition of portraits
Noun
  • Some of the deals have pages of guardrails and approval rights, setting down boundaries for any future use of these replicas.
    — Joy Press, Vanity Fair, 6 July 2026
  • Then there’s the deeper penetration of digital twins (virtual factory replicas).
    — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 2 July 2026
Definition of replicas
Noun
  • The South Beach school’s 1975-‘76 yearbook was a patriotic red, white and blue and illustrations of the Statue of Liberty, the Liberty Bell and the American Eagle.
    — Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 1 July 2026
  • Schematics, facility maps, aerial photographs, engineering drawings, cutaway illustrations, and previously unfamiliar archival images reveal the extraordinary complexity of the undertaking.
    — Rebecca Coffey, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
Definition of illustrations
Noun
  • Scheduled to be in the field with her will be fellow American Sha’Carri Richardson, Jamaican twins Tia and Tina Clayton and another powerful Jamaican in Shericka Jackson.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 4 July 2026
  • An Apple Valley woman who was pregnant with twins died in a crash Saturday.
    — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2026
Definition of twins
Noun
  • My favorite depictions of this city know its real history is too cuckoo to capture sincerely; straight reenactments make the production of 35mm masterpieces look as piddly as Shrinky Dinks.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026
  • The bell’s pyramidal face is decorated with depictions of deceased kings and queens, and its toll was believed to invoke ancestral spirits.
    — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 29 June 2026
Definition of depictions
Noun
  • And that’s not counting the innumerable clones and knock-offs selling for half as much through Alibaba, Amazon and other direct-to-consumer (DTC) makers.
    — William Roberson, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • The action, set on France’s rugged northern coast, is anchored by teen romance, involves far-right anti-migrant activists, and is complicated by blue goo from space that creates clones—including of the two loopy police officers who investigate.
    — Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 26 June 2026
Definition of clones

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