exact counterpart

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In 1905 he became Twelfth Wrangler, Bachelor of Arts and President of the Cambridge Union Society, the exact counterpart of the Oxford debating society.

From Time Magazine Archive

The term, which does not have an exact counterpart in English, refers to people who are born physiologically male but, as one Thai saying goes, "have a female heart."

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week the exact counterpart of all these fanciful suppositions occurred in London.

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This was not simply a variation of inanimate surface, it had an exact counterpart in the emotions: bowed by an insuperable blaze or upright in the veiled sun, the attitude of harmony was profoundly affected.

From San Crist?bal de la Habana by Hergesheimer, Joseph

Phrenologically speaking, her head was said to be the exact counterpart of that of Lafayette, and the similarity was often alluded to by lecturers on the then new and fashionable study of phrenology.

From The Battle of The Press As Told in the Story of the Life of Richard Carlile By His Daughter, Theophila Carlile Campbell by Campbell, Theophila Carlile