noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
good
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A fair painting; free in style but at the same time a good likeness .
■ VERB
bear
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Her brother Jonna bore a startling likeness to their father; so much so that he looked like a younger version.
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Formal operational schemes, such as proportion and probability, bear a closer likeness to scientific reasoning.
see
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Would he perhaps see a likeness ?
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Getting closer, I saw the family likeness .
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She was back at Madame Tussaud's to see her own likeness unveiled in the world's most celebrated Hall of Fame.
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What you see is a three-dimensional likeness projected into space, at a distance from the plate.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Dmitri claimed there was a likeness , but I could never see it.
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He likens creation to a painter mixing just four pigments to form the likenesses of all things.
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His own likeness appears squeezed in above his initials in the right-hand corner.
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In the first place, coins can supply portraits of persons for whom we have no other likeness .
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In this church we have a striking and unusual likeness of a home.
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Jonas's expression hardened to a remarkable likeness of his grandson's.
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The likeness was remarkably good, certainly enough for a quick check at Immigration.
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These are likenesses of the man who committed those attacks.