mirror site
AmericanEtymology
Origin of mirror site
1995–2000
Example Sentences
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The forum had made some efforts to block UK users, but in November 2025 the BBC reported a "mirror" site had emerged under a new name.
From BBC • May 13, 2026
If the state blocks one mirror site, it’s easy to make another.
From Washington Post • Mar. 5, 2022
Word of the mirror site has been spreading in China; on Thursday, its ninth day of operation, it got more than 110,000 visitors.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2014
That means China would need to block both hosting domains – s3.amazonaws.com and commondatastorage.googleapis.com – to block the mirror site: tricky, when thousands of other Chinese websites rely on them.
From Forbes • Jun. 3, 2014
The mirror site said only that the file “was first publicly revealed by WikiLeaks working with our source.”
From BusinessWeek • Jan. 20, 2011
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