doppelganger
Example Sentences
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The Nancy Meyers film “It’s Complicated” briefly features a psychiatrist character with an Airedale terrier — a doppelganger of Belle, Gilberg’s dog who sat in on sessions until her death in 2018, looking back and forth between doctor and patient like a Wimbledon spectator.
From Los Angeles Times
The Gutiérrez in “Serious People” hires a doppelganger to replace him in his professional commitments.
From Los Angeles Times
One of the actors they cast in the short, Miguel Huerta, plays Gutiérrez’s chaotic doppelganger in “Serious People.”
From Los Angeles Times
Mr. Riley’s column was delightful, but I felt sad when he revealed that his doppelganger is someone named “Robert George.”
As an adult I acquired a different doppelgänger, not a famous actor but a fellow opinion journalist whom I happened to befriend after moving to New York in the mid-1990s.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
