mirror

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When these strips are positioned closer together than the wavelength of light, the grating can act like a near-perfect mirror while also holding the light inside a very small volume.

From Science Daily • Apr. 5, 2026

"I wanted the repetition to mirror those cyclical thoughts - a spiral or a fixation on one specific feeling," she says.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026

The dynamic could mirror the situation in 2020, when China captured global market share as the Covid-19 pandemic upended competing supply chains, they said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

Horror is filled with trend-hopping and mimicry — the genre itself holds a mirror to our cultural anxieties, replicating them with chilling, hyperbolic intensity.

From Salon • Mar. 29, 2026

Then he closed the medicine cabinet and leaned over so that he could see his white-bearded face in the mirror.

From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry