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as in image
a two-dimensional design intended to look like a person or thing
the wealthy businessman hired a leading artist to paint his likeness
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as in replica
something or someone that strongly resembles another
why, you're the very likeness of your mother!
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as in resemblance
the quality or state of having many qualities in common
the forgery was difficult to detect due to the pinpoint likeness it bore to the original
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Recent Examples of likeness
On Tuesday the Wall Street Journal had a story on brand companies in sports and that in 2024 $338 million was spent on name, image and likeness.
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Wally Hall, arkansasonline.com, 7 Feb. 2025
The Rock's current likeness will be featured in the upcoming WWE 2K25, out in March.
—Angela Andaloro, People.com, 31 Jan. 2025
The House settlement calls for former athletes to receive millions in back pay and also gives schools the option to distribute up to $20.5 million a year in payments to athletes for use of their name, image and likeness.
—Teresa M. Walker, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2025
The series explores how college athletes managed opportunities that arose due to the advent of name, image, and likeness (NIL).
—Chantz Martin, Fox News, 26 Jan. 2025
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Wally Hall, arkansasonline.com, 7 Feb. 2025
The Rock's current likeness will be featured in the upcoming WWE 2K25, out in March.
—Angela Andaloro, People.com, 31 Jan. 2025
The House settlement calls for former athletes to receive millions in back pay and also gives schools the option to distribute up to $20.5 million a year in payments to athletes for use of their name, image and likeness.
—Teresa M. Walker, Chicago Tribune, 31 Jan. 2025
The series explores how college athletes managed opportunities that arose due to the advent of name, image, and likeness (NIL).
—Chantz Martin, Fox News, 26 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for likeness
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But despite the media blitz projecting images of an unrelenting nationwide sweep, so far, the deportation of migrants is well below the monthly average during the Biden administration, and there is little evidence that ICE is arresting or detaining any more people than usual.—
Lauren Villagran,
USA TODAY,
23 Feb. 2025
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In 2015, Playboy ceased publishing images of naked women, citing the proliferation of nudity on the internet.—
Stephanie Nolasco,
Fox News,
22 Feb. 2025
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One of her graduate students, Katherine Shark, made a replica of the Molyneux gown out of muslin which is part of the exhibit as well.—
Rachel Elspeth Gross,
Forbes,
21 Feb. 2025
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The museum will feature interactive exhibitions and life-sized replicas based on da Vinci’s drawings and sketches.—
Francesca Aton,
ARTnews.com,
21 Feb. 2025
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Reaching lengths of as many as 40 feet long, these reptiles had long necks, broad bodies, and flat flippers, resulting in a loose resemblance to a modern-day sea turtle, both in terms of their looks and their methods of movement.—
Sam Walters,
Discover Magazine,
10 Feb. 2025
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Burton was replaced by Seán McGirr at McQueen and Trotter followed Matthieu Blazy at Bottega—men who, a popular meme pointed out, bear a striking resemblance to each other and to at least a handful of other on-the-rise white male designers.—
Nicole Phelps,
Vogue,
6 Feb. 2025
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Spoiler alert ahead At the end of the show (spoiler alert), next to depictions of the downfall of a wellness scammer, the audience sees Lucy going for her chemotherapy treatments while also doing yoga, taking ice baths and meditating.—
Madeline Holcombe,
CNN,
16 Feb. 2025
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Whishaw listened to it a lot, but aside from those two tapes and essays about him by people who knew him, the depiction of Hujar was largely Whishaw’s own interpretation.—
Lily Ford,
The Hollywood Reporter,
15 Feb. 2025
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Voters for best organic picture tend to keep things gritty and real — otherwise why exclude machine creations in the first place?—
Steven Zeitchik,
The Hollywood Reporter,
28 Feb. 2025
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The winner of the Oscar for best picture is always controversial.—
Hannah Madlener,
Glamour,
28 Feb. 2025
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But by the mid-20th century, lawmakers had grown increasingly opposed to marijuana and were concerned by hemp’s similarity to its impairment-causing cousin.—
Katharine Neill Harris,
The Conversation,
25 Feb. 2025
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Maryland isn’t known for its similarity to the Italian countryside.—
Mary Forgione,
Forbes,
25 Feb. 2025
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The second season of Robert and Michelle King's brilliant, surrealist portrait of life in the Age of Trump often served as a real-time reflection of everything its viewers were feeling: paranoia, rage, disorientation, fear, disbelief, and of course, derangement.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
19 Feb. 2025
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The singer-songwriter’s vivid portrait of a turbulent life.—
The California Independent Booksellers Alliance,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Feb. 2025
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Our family has always been so obsessed with the fact there were two sets of twins born to the same parents in our family.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
27 Feb. 2025
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Trachtenberg plays Jenny, one-half of a set of twins who, along with some boisterous male buddies, sets off on a summer tour of Europe.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
TIME,
26 Feb. 2025
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“Likeness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/likeness. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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