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doppelganger

[dop-uhl-gang-er, daw-puhl-geng-er] / ˈdɒp əlˌgæŋ ər, ˈdɔ pəlˌgɛŋ ər /
NOUN
ghost
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Antonyms
STRONG


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She later posted a photograph with her doppelganger, joking that the resemblance was "pure coincidence, not strategy".

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

It’s absurd that one of the first guys Cole kills could be his doppelganger.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

Van Der Beek communicates an unmistakable feeling that there is a good person somewhere inside his character, dying to break free of the tortured fate his monstrous doppelganger has created for him.

From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2026

One of the actors they cast in the short, Miguel Huerta, plays Gutiérrez’s chaotic doppelganger in “Serious People.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2025

I almost expected to see my doppelganger sprinting across town pursued by a mob, but I guess things didn’t work that way.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs


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