exact counterpart
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Last week the exact counterpart of all these fanciful suppositions occurred in London.
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In 1905 he became Twelfth Wrangler, Bachelor of Arts and President of the Cambridge Union Society, the exact counterpart of the Oxford debating society.
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The term, which does not have an exact counterpart in English, refers to people who are born physiologically male but, as one Thai saying goes, "have a female heart."
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Mr. Roe, the man, is an exact counterpart, one may say, of Mr. Roe, the author.
From E.P. Roe: Reminiscences of his Life by Roe, Mary A.
This view gains support from the fact that the exact counterpart of April-fooling is found to have been an immemorial custom in India.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various