alter ego

Example Sentences

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Each project is filled with an energy he hones through an alter ego filled with confidence, smoothness and aggression.

From Los Angeles Times

“Chuck was very definitely the intellectual alter ego to Stokely Carmichael,” his friend Jeh C. Johnson, the former secretary of homeland security, said in an interview.

From New York Times

“Having an alter ego, you have fewer problems because they can’t harass a character. You have more freedom to speak out,” he said.

From Seattle Times

In the 1990s, he adopted a swaggering, dictatorial in-ring alter ego who screamed at wrestlers, and he was the headliner at pay-per-view events.

From New York Times

He called his case "destined for the Supreme Court", saying it should decide "whether a senior White House aide and alter ego of the president can be compelled to testify by Congress".

From BBC