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as in pictures
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 images
something or someone that strongly resembles another
why, you're the very likeness of your mother!
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Recent Examples of likenesses
Marvel has publicly acknowledged that the studio's productions often scan actors' bodies, though the scans are generally only used for visual effects purposes rather than storing actors' likenesses for future projects.
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Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Jan. 2026
A-list actors lent both their voices and virtual likenesses.
—Will Ripley, CNN Money, 12 Dec. 2025
The agreement does not include any talent likenesses or voices, Disney said.
—Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 11 Dec. 2025
Even TikTok creators, Snapchat stars, and OnlyFans models now license their likenesses to algorithmic girlfriends who will sext, comfort, and dote on paying subscribers around the clock.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 28 Nov. 2025
Keanu Reeves, Tom Hanks, Morgan Freeman, and Jamie Lee Curtis have all spoken out against the misuse of their likenesses in recent months.
—Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
For years, Machine Learning and AI have enabled our teams to develop technologies like HeadStart, which leverages photos to create authentic in-game likenesses.
—Jennifer Maas, Variety, 23 Oct. 2025
Although many in Hollywood have secretly embraced AI tools in recent years, tensions between entertainment industry professionals and AI developers have remained high as artists express concern about the potential for such tools to steal their likenesses and take their labor.
—Angela Yang, NBC news, 20 Oct. 2025
In the days after the Sora app was released, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced changes to the app providing rights holders the ability to opt into their likenesses being depicted by AI, rather than such portrayals being allowed by default.
—Bobby Allyn, NPR, 17 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for likenesses
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Kardashian included a round-up of photos throughout the years, featuring pictures of Chicago skiing, cuddling with her mom, spending time with her family and posing in a field of flowers.—
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Snapchat filters, chokers and saturated pictures are making a comeback, sort of.—
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As night fell, a crowd gathered at the site of the shooting in a residential area of the city's Central neighborhood, aerial TV images showed.—
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Further images show Ryder enjoying a cocktail and spending time with his little sister, Rani, who Hudson welcomed in 2018 with her fiancé, Danny Fujikawa.—
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The Academy Collection has also added the Kobal Foundation Collection of Photograph Negatives, which consists of approximately 20,000 original negatives, including portraits and behind-the-scenes images by some of Hollywood’s greatest photographers.—
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Above the presidential portraits is gold lettering that matches the new Rose Garden sign, titling the makeshift exhibit.—
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For the semiquincentennial celebrations, there will be replicas displayed across Philadelphia and around the state.—
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The ascent takes about an hour, and venders along the way sell religious images and replicas of the cross, as well as roasted corn and Inca Kola.—
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The document that landed Wednesday numbers 10 pages, with illustrations and cover letter — although supplemental material reached some 250 pages.—
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This was a darker point in Bowie's career, expressed by Cordell through the use of grey, black and red in his illustrations.—
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No offense to twins everywhere, but Ryan Coogler is scared to see double.—
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Both twins survived the initial fetal surgery and Sarah was later discharged, but spent the next four weeks undergoing two ultrasounds a week just to make sure everything still looked okay.—
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The movement is considered a response to the ever-present and growing sense of alienation among people, as well as a rejection of the traditional depictions of everyday life in Eastern Europe.—
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Pormanove, 46, was also known online for completing extreme challenges on livestreams, and his death drew public scrutiny for — and an investigation by French authorities into — the streaming platform Kick for allowing creators to share videos that include depictions of physical and verbal abuse.—
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The actress, who won an Emmy for her multifaceted work, plays five genetic clones, each with their own distinct personality and lifestyle.—
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As narrator Fennel Tycho explains how the heist went south, Tanzer examines real versus fake, clones versus their primes, and synthselves versus humans.—
Cite this Entry
“Likenesses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/likenesses. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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