look-alike
noun
a person or thing that looks like or closely resembles another; double.
look-alikes
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pluralof look-alike.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The AI can help find look-alikes or secondhand vendors that might still have it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 2025
Using a combination of artificial intelligence modeling, genetic screening, and laboratory testing, Duarte and his team confirmed that the M5 motif distinguishes true PET-degrading enzymes from inactive look-alikes.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2025
Sprinkled through the crowd like “Where’s Waldo” are the Chalamet look-alikes, reporters clambering to grab interviews and eventgoers enraptured with the allure of the Timmy variants.
From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2024
But that’s probably for the best; whenever the series attempts to portray the glory that was Hollywood, recreate a specific production or cycle in some celebrity look-alikes, it sputters and dies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2023
There were families sheltered in cheap tent trailers, aging hippies in Day-Glo vans, Charles Manson look-alikes sleeping in rusted-out Studebakers that hadn’t turned over since Eisenhower was in the White House.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
