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doppelganger

noun as in ghost

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Our Chris Smith’s main worry is that his kindly alternate dimension father and brother will find out that he killed his doppelganger in an act of self-defense; Earth X Peacemaker would have murdered him otherwise.

From Salon

There would be something operatic, or at least soap-operatic, about the two longtime competitors openly vying for the country’s ultimate political prize — though it’s hard to see Democrats, with their persistent hunger for novelty, turning to Harris or her left-coast political doppelganger as their savior.

As journalist Naomi Klein documented in her book "Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World," the pandemic gave rise to large numbers of people arguing that infectious disease is good because it supposedly culls the weak from the gene pool.

From Salon

That includes her turn as starship Capt. Philippa Georgiou and her Mirror Universe doppelganger on “Star Trek: Discovery.”

As the demands of these two facets of his life become overwhelming, he decides to hire a doppelgänger to take over his professional commitments.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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