likeness
Example Sentences
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Mint has approved a limited-production commemorative 24-karat gold coin with his likeness.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
A new bipartisan college-sports bill aims to regulate the name, image and likeness era in college sports.
From MarketWatch • May 28, 2026
Attorneys for Lipa filed the suit Friday in a US court in California, claiming "massive, continuing, unauthorized commercial exploitation of her valuable image and likeness by Samsung on cardboard television boxes."
From Barron's • May 11, 2026
“Yellowstone” and “The New World” actor Q’orianka Kilcher has taken legal action against filmmaker James Cameron, Disney and others she says used her likeness in the wildly lucrative “Avatar” film franchise without her knowledge.
From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2026
“I cannot agree with you. It appears to me a most perfect resemblance in every feature. I never saw such a likeness in my life. We must allow for the effect of shade, you know.”
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
Vocabulary lists containing likeness
"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act II
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