mirror images

noun

plural of mirror image
as in pictures
something or someone that strongly resembles another looking at the idealistic intern, the elderly physician could not help but see the mirror image of himself 40 years earlier

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Recent Examples of mirror images The narrator spends years assembling the truth of this death, concealed by his family, and discovers that Calcutta and Dhaka experienced those riots as mirror images of each other. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 July 2026 Foreign Tongues was built around leftover material from the Hackney Diamonds sessions, and the two albums are such mirror images of one another that they may as well have been released together, Use Your Illusion-style. — Stuart Berman, Pitchfork, 13 July 2026 Parker, who also shares son James, 23, with husband Matthew Broderick, previously pushed back on the stereotype that her twins are mirror images of each other. — Lara Walsh, InStyle, 23 June 2026 Also, the two opposing narratives were mirror images of each other in volume and posting cadence, suggesting that the same culprit may have been amplifying both sides of the fight. — Lane Brown, Vulture, 15 May 2026 Not just related to the writing process, replicas and their cousins (mirror images, lookalikes, doubles/multiples) appear throughout the book across generations, and between friends and strangers. — Literary Hub, 7 Apr. 2026 Duality comes up a lot in Cameron’s work—alter egos, inner contradictions, mirror images. — Nicola Dall'asen, Allure, 5 Feb. 2026 In Black Swan, Nina is surrounded by creepy mirror images. — Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 12 Jan. 2026 Auto critic Mark Phelan put the finishing touches on his picks for the annual Car, Truck and Utility vehicle of the year, while autos team newbie Liam Rappleye waxed poetic about a custom Chrysler mash-up of minivans whose frontend and backend are mirror images. — Nicole Avery Nichols, Freep.com, 30 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mirror images
  1. pictures
  2. images
  3. twins
  4. replicas
  5. clones
  6. portraits
Noun
  • Starting in the 1930s, as talking pictures and then radio and TV supplanted theater as the prime form of mass entertainment, some were converted to cinemas.
    — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 3 Sep. 2026
  • And, apparently, the eerie pictures are turning people's stomachs.
    — Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of pictures
Noun
  • The trove of women’s bloomers, drawers, knickers, brassieres, corsets, and girdles is just a small part of the school’s historic clothing collection, with images shared by the University of Wyoming Libraries via JSTOR.
    — April White, JSTOR Daily, 2 Sep. 2026
  • Her paintings, like her images, feel like moving through a fog made of glass and wood, chaos and restraint, Lilith in a Victorian steel mill.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of images
Noun
  • His soccer passion, engineering background and executive skills helped guide the twins through the recruiting process.
    — Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 4 Sep. 2026
  • But soaps demand evil twins, hence the Sybok of La’an’s imagination.
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of twins
Noun
  • Today, replicas of various degrees of accuracy are readily available.
    — David Szondy August 30, New Atlas, 30 Aug. 2026
  • Additionally, studios need to pay residuals to digital replicas used in reruns, and replicas cannot be used during a strike.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of replicas
Noun
  • Some females, however, reproduce asexually by making clones of themselves.
    — Carrie Arnold Contributing, Quanta Magazine, 2 Sep. 2026
  • That’s in contrast to bacteria, which reproduce asexually, creating clones that are often nearly identical and easy to trace.
    — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of clones
Noun
  • In portraits in homes and classrooms, in daily photographs on the front page of the country’s main party newspaper, on the lapel badges that citizens had pinned over their hearts, Kim’s image was the very iconography of the state.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2026
  • After two decades in commercial property and about two years of drawing bad dog portraits, Heckels quit his job and started drawing portraits nearly every day instead.
    — Maddie Rhodes, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of portraits

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“Mirror images.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mirror%20images. Accessed 6 Sep. 2026.

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