alter ego

Example Sentences

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Villarreal: What was the conversation like when you were having to embody the alter ego of your character, of leaning into that stereotype when there’s the conference call?

From Los Angeles Times

“There’s always a question at the center of a novel that is one I’m grappling with, and my first-person narrators are often avatars in a way, or alter egos,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times

Smigel still isn't putting limits on himself — and he's never left behind his cigar-chomping canine alter ego — but these days he's pushing himself in different directions.

From Salon

Merriam-Webster defines it as a “double,” an “alter ego” or a “ghostly counterpart.”

From Seattle Times

He drew attention from the campus newspaper for his alter ego, “Da Vek,” a rapper who performed using libertarian ideology as lyrics.

From Seattle Times