exact counterpart
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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."
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week the exact counterpart of all these fanciful suppositions occurred in London.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1905 he became Twelfth Wrangler, Bachelor of Arts and President of the Cambridge Union Society, the exact counterpart of the Oxford debating society.
From Time Magazine Archive
The exact counterpart of Miss Cynthia Gall responded rather sourly that she wasn't "boarding or baiting" that year.
From Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth by Alice Morse Earle
The spectroscope.—In some respects the spectroscope is the exact counterpart of the telescope.
From A Text-Book of Astronomy by George C. Comstock
