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
Most famously, David Tennant returned to play a Fourteenth Doctor who was the spitting image of the Tenth Doctor.
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Richard Edwards, Space.com, 1 June 2025
The twins do indeed look like spitting images of their late mother, model Kim Porter.
—Essence, 19 May 2025
Abdel Fattah had kept his activities a secret from everyone in his family except for his brother, Mustafa, who sat at the far end of the room, the spitting image of the young man in the martyr’s photo propped up on the end table.
—Ben Ehrenreich, Harpers Magazine, 26 Mar. 2025
The couple's eldest child, Levi, who is the spitting image of his father, looked on while his father got to work.
—Stephanie Giang-Paunon, Fox News, 24 Jan. 2025
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Richard Edwards, Space.com, 1 June 2025
The twins do indeed look like spitting images of their late mother, model Kim Porter.
—Essence, 19 May 2025
Abdel Fattah had kept his activities a secret from everyone in his family except for his brother, Mustafa, who sat at the far end of the room, the spitting image of the young man in the martyr’s photo propped up on the end table.
—Ben Ehrenreich, Harpers Magazine, 26 Mar. 2025
The couple's eldest child, Levi, who is the spitting image of his father, looked on while his father got to work.
—Stephanie Giang-Paunon, Fox News, 24 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spitting image
Noun
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Hey Alexa, create an image of traders popping champagne in the New York Stock Exchange.—
Yeo Boon Ping,
CNBC,
16 Sep. 2025
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In images taken from the Israel-Gaza border on Tuesday, plumes of smoke could be seen rising above the city, which is the largest in the Gaza Strip.—
Kevin Shalvey,
ABC News,
16 Sep. 2025
Noun
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And the data center blueprints running on Omniverse provide a digital twin for the design, construction, and operation of an AI data center, or AI factory as Nvidia refers to them.—
Jim McGregor,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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In addition to executive producing, Pressly will play the twins’ mom, Roda.—
Katie Campione,
Deadline,
19 Sep. 2025
Noun
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There is also an actual mechanical shark that visitors can manipulate, albeit a scale replica.—
R. Daniel Foster,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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One of the new additions to the lobby is a replica of a 1925 chandelier, recreated by artisans from photos that were discovered of the original ornate light fixture.—
Michelle F. Solomon,
Miami Herald,
13 Sep. 2025
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Anonymous tips forward to the FBI’s National Threat Operations Center reported threatening posts from a Discord profile that referenced plans for a future massacre and contained pictures of guns.—
Mia Cathell,
The Washington Examiner,
18 Sep. 2025
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Ad design format may change depending on Family Hub personalization options for the Cover Screen, and advertising will not appear when Cover Screen displays Art Mode or picture albums.—
Scharon Harding,
ArsTechnica,
18 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Deepfakes and synthetic voice clones are now attack vectors.—
Jason Crawforth,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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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
Noun
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The perfectly still water creates a flawless mirror image of the stalactites above, tricking your eyes into seeing a vast, bottomless lake.—
Alexandra Emanuelli,
Southern Living,
16 Sep. 2025
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Hands cannot be confused with their mirror image.—
Thomas Moynihan,
Big Think,
15 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Both his African heritage and his new exploration of the verisimilitudes and vagaries of New York City life paint the ongoing development of The Watchman, sometimes featured as the key figure as in the monumental portrait, AH!—
Natasha Gural,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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Toward the end of the colonial period, portrait photography records yet another cultural shift.—
H.M.A. Leow,
JSTOR Daily,
13 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Analysts like him would pore over positive duplicates of negatives, examining them under a micro-stereoscope to see sites in three dimensions.—
Matthew Kayser,
USA Today,
8 Sep. 2025
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Clean up messy data, remove duplicates and make sure everything follows a consistent format.—
Samuel Darwin,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Spitting image.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spitting%20image. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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