as in image
something or someone that strongly resembles another
with the help of either movie magic or makeup, the actress appeared to be the spitting image of the queen
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Recent Examples of spitting image
The couple's eldest child, Levi, who is the spitting image of his father, looked on while his father got to work.
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Stephanie Giang-Paunon, Fox News, 24 Jan. 2025
Among all of the stars on the red carpet were two lucky celebrity doppelgängers who made waves at lookalike contests earlier this year: Miles Mitchell, who is the spitting image of A Complete Unknown star Timothée Chalamet, and Maxwell Braunstein, a mirror of Hit Man actor Glen Powell.
—Luke Chinman, People.com, 6 Jan. 2025
Princess Charlotte looked the spitting image of her mother, also wearing a Christmassy red coat.
—Isaac Bickerstaff, Glamour, 6 Dec. 2024
Back in May, Kardashian shared a throwback video that had many fans believing that her daughter was the spitting image of her.
—Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 24 Oct. 2024
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Stephanie Giang-Paunon, Fox News, 24 Jan. 2025
Among all of the stars on the red carpet were two lucky celebrity doppelgängers who made waves at lookalike contests earlier this year: Miles Mitchell, who is the spitting image of A Complete Unknown star Timothée Chalamet, and Maxwell Braunstein, a mirror of Hit Man actor Glen Powell.
—Luke Chinman, People.com, 6 Jan. 2025
Princess Charlotte looked the spitting image of her mother, also wearing a Christmassy red coat.
—Isaac Bickerstaff, Glamour, 6 Dec. 2024
Back in May, Kardashian shared a throwback video that had many fans believing that her daughter was the spitting image of her.
—Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 24 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spitting image
Noun
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Any federal agent using Clearview or an alternative can take the same footage and run facial images to find matches across photos scraped from social sites.—
Thomas Brewster,
Forbes.com,
10 June 2025
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All circled the same themes: surveillance, body image, sadism, hyperfemininity, male (heterosexual) desire and women’s obligation to fulfill it.—
Dayna Tortorici,
New Yorker,
9 June 2025
Noun
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Changing the twins to look nothing like one another actually leads to one of the best jokes in the film.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
14 June 2025
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The twins' father was a cook at the local hospital.—
Gabrielle Emanuel,
NPR,
13 June 2025
Noun
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The strike hinges on a single issue: SAG-AFTRA’s strong concerns regarding consent and compensation for the use of AI replicas.—
Jennifer Maas,
Variety,
10 June 2025
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Infantino has appeared at Trump's rallies, dined with him at Davos, and even presented him with a replica of the FIFA Club World Cup trophy — now displayed in the Oval Office.—
Jesus Mesa,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 June 2025
Noun
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The upload continued with an intimate picture of Chris cradling a baby to his chest, a snap of the family coloring at a kitchen table, and one of Chris and his two daughters with a horse.—
Ingrid Vasquez,
People.com,
16 June 2025
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There was a picture on somebody’s Instagram with a side-by-side of him and me.—
Seth Abramovitch,
HollywoodReporter,
16 June 2025
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Fruit is sourced using a blend of Dijon clone grapes grown in the Napa Valley and harvested during the last three weeks of September 2022.—
Mike DeSimone,
Robb Report,
12 June 2025
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Investigators suspect the perpetrators used artificial intelligence to clone Wiles’ voice.—
Thomas Brewster,
Forbes.com,
3 June 2025
Noun
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In what seems to be the dark mirror image to The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, V.E. Schwab intertwines stories of three different women separated by seas and centuries: María in Santo Domingo de la Calzada (1532), Charlotte in London (1827), and Alice in Boston (2019).—
Natalie Zutter
June 2,
Literary Hub,
2 June 2025
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Peering into the closet isn’t important only as a way of exploring the dark mirror image of the liberatory history of coming out.—
Duane Michals Eric Jason Martin Krish Seenivasan Zak Mouton,
New York Times,
12 May 2025
Noun
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Even without all that, L.A. has a raft of problems on its hands, and the close-up at the moment is not a pretty portrait.—
Steve Lopez,
Los Angeles Times,
7 June 2025
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Rosenheim believes that early photographic portraits empowered working-class Americans.—
Lillian Ali,
Smithsonian Magazine,
6 June 2025
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Users are directed to those duplicates via messaging and social media channels.—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes.com,
11 May 2025
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Most of the gems were sent to an Indian museum in Kolkata, according to the Indian government, and a fifth of the total find — consisting of duplicates of the main collection — were retained by Peppé.—
Helen Regan,
CNN Money,
6 May 2025
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“Spitting image.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spitting%20image. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.
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