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mirror image

noun

an image of an object, plan, person, etc., as it would appear if viewed in a mirror, with right and left reversed.
an object having a spatial arrangement that corresponds to that of another object except that the right-to-left sense on one object corresponds to the left-to-right sense on the other.

mirror image

an image as observed in a mirror
an object that corresponds to another object in the same way as it would correspond to its image in a mirror

First recorded in 1880–85

After the meeting, he told The New York Times that meeting Kyenge gave him a “mirror-image feeling.”

The mirror-image systems of communism and fascism promised to solve problems quickly through command and control.

President Barack Obama, on the other hand, is the mirror image, his liberal intellectual equal.

In short, she was a nearly mirror image of her troubled daughter.

It also tells the story of my mother, a mirror image of my motherland.

There was even one letter 'o' which appeared to be upside down, or, perhaps, a mirror-image.

He was probably also the most Campbellian; his self-reliant man is almost a mirror image of Campbell's "Citizen."

I could see in the mirror-image, behind Dud's head the outlines of the little public cubby from which he was calling.

These he observed to be of two kinds differing in form as a right glove from a left, or as an object from its mirror-image.

Capgras is the mirror image, I guess: a failure to react emotionally to familiar faces.

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