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  • n  similarity in appearance or external or superficial details

  • She also bore a family resemblance to half of my female Irish relatives.
  • The senior Lo Piccolo, sporting a leather jacket and a mane of white hair and beard, shared only a vague resemblance with the most recent composite sketch.
  • When the Islamic Revolution overtook her homeland in 1979, Neshat was exiled and couldn't return until 11 years later--and the country she went home to bore little resemblance to .
News & Articles

  • Here Is Naomi Watts in All Her Princess Diana Glory (or Is It Tina Brown?)
    The first look at the upcoming movie Diana—which is, yes, about Princess Diana and stars Naomi Watts—has everything you might expect from a Diana biopic. There will be beautiful gowns. There will be tabloids. There will be humanitarianism. And Watts's look is pretty spot-on, right down to that perfectly feathered mane, as long as you ignore the uncanny resemblance to Diana fanatic and Newsweek ...
    June 12, 2013 - The Atlantic Wire via Yahoo! News
  • VIDEO: See Namoi Watts As Princess Di in the First Trailer for Diana
    Silence is golden in the first trailer for the anticipated biopic Diana.The clip doesn't feature any dialogue, but slowly builds to the reveal of star Naomi Watts, who bears a striking resemblance to the late princess. The film follows Diana's last two years, when she was secretly involved with heart surgeon Dr. Hasnat Khan, played by Naveen Andrews. Olivier Hirschbiegel directed. While there's ...
    June 12, 2013 - TV Guide
  • Cupertino’s photocopiers: What iOS 7 borrowed from Android
    The resemblance is uncanny.
    June 11, 2013 - Ars Technica
Quotes

  • Barack Obama in AFP
    Let's disagree over things that are real -- not these wild representations that bear no resemblance to anything that has actually been proposed,Obama said in the question-and-answer session.
  • Bart Gordon in Washington Post
    I think it's clear that we have a budgetary situation that bears little resemblance to the rosy projections offered by the administration ...... a vision that is now increasingly blurred,Gordon told NASA Administrator Michael Griffin.
  • Paul Krugman in Washington Post
    We are now witnessing a crisis that is as severe as the crisis that hit Asia in the 90's. This crisis bears some resemblance to the Great Depression,Krugman told reporters Monday.

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