resemblance
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The story has elements similar to popular summer blockbusters, but they’re so finely remixed and retooled that they don’t bear such exhausting resemblance to their forebears.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
The unhappy men meet and, noticing a resemblance to one another, arrive at an unspoken agreement to trade lives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
The hair and makeup teams emphasize Wilde’s resemblance to those old school maneaters while keeping her look cutting-edge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
"I mean, like, all right, it's similar, it has a resemblance to a youth club," he says.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
But her great eyes, with their elaborate lashes, could only be those of a grown woman; there the resemblance to adolescence ended.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
The bloggers and columnists, clickbait news sites, and social media influencers promise forensic detail: the way clothes move, the anatomy of the pregnant body, the tone of her denials, the baby’s resemblances.
From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2025
She notices resemblances between certain attendees and her grandmother.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2023
ME/CFS bears striking resemblances to long COVID, with symptoms such as immune system dysregulation, fatigue and cognitive dysfunction.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 14, 2023
Banks, now 82, claims that there are “many unsettling parallels and resemblances between my own story and Harley Mann’s.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 29, 2022
One of Tariq’s friends, on the basis of the most passing of resemblances to Sylvester Stallone, insisted he be called Rambo.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
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