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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Recent Examples of looking glass
For many, the start of the pandemic was like going through the looking glass.
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Aatish Bhatia, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2025
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.
—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
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Aatish Bhatia, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2025
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.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for looking glass
mirror
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Gomez, 31, shared the mirror selfie of the couple's black-and-white twinning moment in an Instagram Story on Wednesday, May 21.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
People.com,
22 May 2025
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In his introductory notes to Première, Angiolini noted that Time is fluid, ever-changing, and jewelry, worn over lifetimes and handed down across generations, often serves as a kind of mirror or microcosmic memento of one’s time on Earth.—
Kyle Roderick,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2025
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“Looking glass.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/looking%20glass. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.
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