resemblance
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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
A humanoid’s frantic attempts to stay upright—arms flailing, legs skittering—bears an uncanny resemblance to the choreographed collapses of Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keaton.
From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2026
The outcome of the referendum, which holds no legal weight and bares a resemblance to the classic Ealing comedy Passport to Pimlico, is expected to be announced on Wednesday morning.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
The gameplay bears a striking resemblance to Tetris.
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026
He showed it to Fernanda and she also admitted the resemblance of the horseman not only to the colonel but to everybody in the family, although he was actually a Tartar warrior.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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
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
Some social media users have come out in support of Wee, including Singaporean poet Daryl Lim, who posted examples of the resemblances between Wee and Haigh's books on Instagram.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2021
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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