likeness
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The 1930s-style design was given the bird on social media minutes after being unveiled against the San Francisco 49ers, with many lampooning its likeness to Nazi iconography.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
“If you designed your Muse avatar or if you designed your Dot in the likeness of your pet, perhaps you would feel a little bit more forgiving if your pet coughs up a hairball, right?”
From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2026
“Range Over!” began a press release trumpeting the Jaecoo’s early sales success, winking at its likeness to the Range Rover Evoque.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
As "the symbol of one's personality" voice is subject to "publicity rights" and "rights to prevent unauthorised use of one's portrait and likeness", the ministry said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
I made it by myself and I think it is a very good likeness.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
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“Who are these sitters whose likenesses and presence we feel something for? It’s time we know more.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
Rosales adores our pictures as much as we do, if not more, and “East of the River” confirms her boundless affection for the women whose likenesses and cultural contributions she’s devoted to preserving.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
“The ideas are the ideas. But once you go down to creating likenesses, you know, people, faces, voices, that’s where people really get alarmed,” said Giansiracusa.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
The hospital should absolutely inform physicians if their names and likenesses are being employed in this way, and they should also be told in advance what patients will be solicited in their name.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026
Their likenesses were carved into the stones that sealed the tombs.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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