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“After a while, algorithms could mine those portraits for patterns for so-called look-alike models: What traits predicted whether someone was a likely donor to an environmental cause?”
“Devon Scott, 14, could have been expelled for at least one year if district officials had adhered to a strict interpretation of the state's zero-tolerance weapons policy and the federal Gun-Free Schools Act, which, in theory, apply even to look-alike weapons.”
Teen Suspended, Not Expelled, For Shooting Nerf Gun In School
“Don't see how a Nerf gun could be considered a look-alike weapon.”
Teen Suspended, Not Expelled, For Shooting Nerf Gun In School
“The United States needs a heavy lift booster and a new effort to reach beyond LEO more than we need another Great Society look-alike program.”
President Bush and the Orion rocket or Orion launching vehicle - NASA Watch
“Mr. Cook has a better chance of winning a Raul Malo look-alike contest than ever being a leader.”
Steve Cook Wants to Be The Next Deputy Center Director at Marshall - NASA Watch
“No previews available, but we're promised a randy club promoter, a Jordan look-alike and a popstrel who wants to be the next Cheryl Cole.”
“That's the top prize at DC101's annual costume contest, where in recent years winners have included a perfectly coiffed McLovin look-alike and an elaborate (and homemade) Optimus Prime outfit with glowing headlights and taillights.”
The Washington Post: Halloween 2010: costumes, decorations, pictures and more
“But we can be certain of several things, which is that she has a very strong chin, hooked nose very much like her father's, sunken eyes - no great beauty, by no means an Elizabeth Taylor look-alike.”
“One section of the city, spread over several square blocks, is known as "Christmas Village," stacked with some 260 look-alike shops offering all the accoutrements of modern-day American Christmas - the plastic snowmen and reindeer for the front lawn, stockings for the chimneys and brightly painted ornaments for the trees.”
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All these terms have a (different) American English equivalent. Wonder if you can identify them?
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