Example Sentences

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Shortly after filming the scenes, Dynevor was informed that her real life was mirroring that of her character's.

From BBC • Oct. 19, 2023

“Unfortunately, a lot of what we were seeing firsthand was mirroring the themes of the picture.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2022

For the first time in 40 years, power was mirroring back to Friedrich von Hayek his own cherished self-image, a man who might vanquish Keynes and remake the world.

From The Guardian • Aug. 18, 2017

Soon enough, I was mirroring, even amplifying, the same bullying, insecure and paranoid traits I had been railing against.

From Salon • Jun. 24, 2017

Without knowing it, he was mirroring the smirk his mother had left his father with when she saw him on the couch years earlier.

From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore