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- noun A
ghostly double of aliving person , especially one thathaunts such a person. - noun An
evil twin . - noun A remarkably similar double.
- noun A person who has the same name as another.
- noun A fantastic monster that takes the forms of people, usually after killing them.
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Examples
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A few minutes later the real Lance arrives at the nightclub to the amazement of Stone and Dina; he explains his doppelganger is his ol𒀰der brother former army intelligence specialist Barton, who still suffers from an amnesia causing blow to the head.
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Without a context, without a narrative other than that which we have inferred, there's no way of knowing whether this doppelganger is artifice or anomaly.
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Without a context, without a narrative other than that which we have inferred, there's no way of knowing whether this doppelganger is artifice or anomaly.
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Stalked by an enigmatic doppelganger from a pre🍎ternatural realm, Joanna can feel the Light failing – which is propelling her toward a terrifying confrontation with the ultimate master of evil, the dark lord of Shadow: her fatꦫher.
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The doctor has Maximillian (who, unlike his doppelganger, is capable of speech) throw our heroes in the brig, where Old Bꦯob is their jailer.
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"It was a very beautiful, bittersweet moment that was very short-lived and interrupted by the queen bee — the other me," she says referring to her doppelganger Katherine.
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It is, however, the beginning of the Kolchak: The Night Stalker episode “Firefall”, which is about a ghost trying to isolate and take over the life of musical composer Ryder Bond, a ghost which is called a doppelganger in the episode.
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It is, however, the beginning of the Kolchak: The Night Stalker episode “Firefall”, which is about a ghost trying to isolate and take over the life of musical composer Ryder Bond, a ghost which is called a doppelganger in the episode.
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The entry for my doppelganger was a low-tech gizmo and it caught my attention.
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The entry for my doppelganger was a low-tech gizmo and it caught my attention.
seanmeade commented on the word doppelganger
favorite usage: 'welcome to our world, small, amusing doppelganger.'
-- Teen Titans, Season 2March 26, 2007
punchcard commented on the word doppelganger
A doppelgänger or fetch is the ghostly double of a living person, a sinister form of bilocation.September 27, 2008
nuxiy commented on the word doppelganger
"dobbelgjenger" on NorwegianApril 26, 2009