counterparts

NOUN

match; identical part or thing

Synonyms

STRONG

analogue complement copy correlate correlative correspondent ditto doppelganger duplicate equal equivalent fellow like mate obverse opposite pendant ringer supplement tally twin

WEAK

carbon copy dead ringer look alike opposite number peas in a pod spit and image spitting image two of a kind

Antonyms

STRONG

original

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counterparts

Its counterparts in the EU and Australia have also issued similar alerts.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

One counterintuitive finding is that countries with greater equality between the sexes tend to have higher fertility rates, which might explain in part why the U.S. runs ahead of many of its regional counterparts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

During a conversation, they recognized that the same rule known to govern jet formation in relatively small black holes also seemed to apply to their supermassive counterparts.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

Tech firms -- which rely on borrowing to fund their huge AI investments -- led the losses Thursday, tracking their counterparts in New York.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

A notable element of all these East-West rivalries was that the western rep-resentatives nearly always seemed to embody certain attributes that stood in stark contrast to those of their eastern counterparts.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

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