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look-alike

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. double, image, look-alikeadjective

    someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor)

    "he could be Gingrich's double"; "she's the very image of her mother"

  2. look-alikeadjective

    resembling closely

    "they have look-alike cars"

Wiktionary

  1. look-alikenoun

    A person who is visually similar to another; a double

Wikipedia

  1. Look-alike

    A look-alike, double, or doppelgänger is a person who bears a strong physical resemblance to another person, excluding cases like twins and other instances of family resemblance. Some look-alikes have been notable individuals in their own right, such as Britain's King George V and Russia's Tsar Nicholas II, who bore a striking resemblance to each other (they were first cousins). Other notable look-alikes have been notable solely for resembling well-known individuals, such as Clifton James, who acted as a double for British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery during World War II. Some look-alikes who have resembled celebrities have worked as entertainers, impersonating them on stage and screen, or at venues like parties and corporate functions. Professional look-alikes have often been represented by talent agencies specializing in celebrity impersonators.Close physical resemblance between two or more individuals is also a common plot point in works of fiction.

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  1. look-alike

    A look-alike is a person or thing that closely resembles another person or thing. This can refer to people who have a physical appearance similar to a celebrity, family member, or another individual. It can also refer to items or products that have a design or aspect closely mimicking or replicating another product or item.

Wikidata

  1. Look-alike

    A look-alike is a person who closely resembles another person. In popular Western culture, a look-alike is a person who bears a close physical resemblance to a celebrity, politician or member of royalty. Many look-alikes earn a living by making guest appearances at public events or performing on television or film, playing the person they resemble. A large variety of celebrity look-alike images can be found throughout the web, including images placed by professional agencies that offer their services. Look-alikes have also figured prominently at least since the 19th century in literature, and in the 20th and 21st centuries in film.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of look-alike in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of look-alike in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of look-alike in a Sentence

  1. Ann Dunwoody:

    What I've realized is how important diversity is to solving complex and challenging problems that we have today, if we are sitting with all men that look alike and trained alike they tend to come out with similar solutions. The power of diversifying ... makes any organization better. Even on the battlefield. Particularly on the battlefield.

  2. Bienvenido Rojas:

    They don't look alike at all, some people will tell you that even a breastfeeding infant can identify David Ortiz.

  3. Bob Barnes:

    The best thing about that was we look alike and that was just — it was strange, but cool, it was like one of those things that you read about … You can’t make this stuff up.

  4. Cheryl Greenberg:

    Once Nazism emerged, and then a Nazi look-alike movement in the United States emerged, it was quite clear that Jews were in trouble, too, so you see Jewish organizations and Jewish individuals joining efforts of the Black community to challenge racial discrimination.

  5. Sarah Woloski:

    But if Alden has the right swagger and attitude to pull that off, that's more important than being a Harrison Ford look-alike.


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