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
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
If you’re curious, you can see them too, on a similar mirror site called Topsy.
From Forbes • Feb. 10, 2011
The mirror site said only that the file “was first publicly revealed by WikiLeaks working with our source.”
From BusinessWeek • Jan. 20, 2011
But some experts counter that dismantling Web sites is ineffective -- no sooner does a site come down than a mirror site pops up somewhere else.
From Washington Post • Mar. 19, 2010
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