as in mirror
a smooth or polished surface that forms images by reflection
always remember that the image is reversed in the looking glass
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As the rational and oft-flabbergasted physician who narrates Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories, Watson is the looking glass into Holmes’s intellectual superpowers.
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Rory Doherty, Vulture, 24 Jan. 2025
Comparatively speaking, the looking glass world of Songs of the Jabberwock is remarkably grounded.
—Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
The experience was a strange one, like going down a looking glass.
—Jake Kring-Schreifels, TIME, 4 Oct. 2024
The mirror becomes the looking glass.
—Bryan West, The Tennessean, 10 Apr. 2024
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Rory Doherty, Vulture, 24 Jan. 2025
Comparatively speaking, the looking glass world of Songs of the Jabberwock is remarkably grounded.
—Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
The experience was a strange one, like going down a looking glass.
—Jake Kring-Schreifels, TIME, 4 Oct. 2024
The mirror becomes the looking glass.
—Bryan West, The Tennessean, 10 Apr. 2024
See All Example Sentences for looking glass
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“Looking glass.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/looking%20glass. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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