spitting image

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Recent Examples of spitting image The duo attended the Carolina Herrera runway show in chic ensembles, with Willow looking the spitting image of her mom. Catherine Santino, People.com, 22 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 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 See All Example Sentences for spitting image
Recent Examples of Synonyms for spitting image
Noun
  • Check out images of the iconic statue over the years.
    Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 29 July 2025
  • In the image, the trio was all smiles for the special occasion.
    Angel Saunders, People.com, 28 July 2025
Noun
  • Survivors include his wife, Maxine, an interior designer and artist; his children, Daisy, Doug, Sam and twins Jake and Zack; his grandchildren, Spencer, Jasper, Sienna, Ryan and Charlotte; and his daughters-in-law, Brett and Leah.
    Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 21 July 2025
  • Smile sadly at her, his face an eerie twin of her own.
    Mona Awad, New Yorker, 20 July 2025
Noun
  • In one extreme case, SAFE even designed a private replica of the Monaco Formula 1 Grand Prix circuit—complete with harbor and tunnel—for a client’s children to race 100+ mph electric karts underground.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 29 July 2025
  • Between historical buildings, replica buildings, and museum exhibits, there are dozens of access points into the past at Manatee Village Historical Park.
    Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 26 July 2025
Noun
  • For trucking cases where liability can hinge on a phone interaction seconds before impact, logical extraction provides an incomplete and potentially misleading picture.
    Lars Daniel, Forbes.com, 22 July 2025
  • Actor Paddy Considine shared a picture of Osbourne on Instagram.
    Marina Watts, People.com, 22 July 2025
Noun
  • Everyone knows the clones that served alongside General Obi-Wan Kenobi on Utapau, though.
    Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 4 July 2025
  • The success of Cars Land at Disney California Adventure park could have encouraged the Magic Kingdom plan, although the new rides won’t be clones of the originals.
    Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 July 2025
Noun
  • But don’t lose sight of the statement Schoen and Daboll are trying to make with an offense that is practically a mirror image of last year’s lackluster group: Jones, the quarterback, was the problem.
    Pat Leonard, Hartford Courant, 14 July 2025
  • The Rangers are the mirror image of the Diamondbacks: Texas’ pitching has been excellent, but their offense has been horrid.
    The Athletic MLB Staff, New York Times, 8 July 2025
Noun
  • There’s also a portrait of an adult Dolly in the lobby on the opposite side of the lobby.
    Robin Raven, Forbes.com, 26 July 2025
  • The family portraits in the set's side panels at the beginning of each episode are priceless.
    Lindsay Soll, EW.com, 25 July 2025
Noun
  • Regarding the duplicates, Mawari said that many Arab American and Muslim residents in Dearborn have similar names, even within families, and so many of the duplicates may actually be different people.
    Niraj Warikoo, Freep.com, 26 July 2025
  • This means updating any missing or incomplete data and removing duplicates.
    Nikolaus Kimla, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025

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“Spitting image.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spitting%20image. Accessed 4 Aug. 2025.

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