Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that closely resembles another in sound, especially by imitation of voice or of musical style.
- noun A homophone.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Someone who has a similar
voice to another.
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Examples
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Pretty soon everyone will have a Glenn Beck sound-alike.
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So there you have it – a case of temp track influence, unintentional sound-alike, or deliberate influence?
Rampant Speculation: Spot the Temp Track Ben Abraham 2009
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The packet we were given also included a long list of medications and sound-alike or look-alike medications that they were sometimes confused with.
Chocolate & Vicodin Jennette Fulda 2011
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And hey, if things turn out as bad as Ford suggests, there is always the solution that Andy Richter settled on — beating the heck out of the job-threatening Watson sound-alike with a baseball bat.
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There could be conflict preemption if state laws tried to take works out of the public domain or interfered with the production of sound-alike sound recordings, which federal law specifically allows.
Long-delayed Facenda post Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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So there you have it – a case of temp track influence, unintentional sound-alike, or deliberate influence?
Archive 2009-04-01 Ben Abraham 2009
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The packet we were given also included a long list of medications and sound-alike or look-alike medications that they were sometimes confused with.
Chocolate & Vicodin Jennette Fulda 2011
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For rock fans, the trends are producing a steady outpouring of bland, sound-alike records from bands that seem more eager to master a formula than push boundaries.
Archive: The Dismemberment Plan's dalliance with Interscope Records Click Track 2011
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There could be conflict preemption if state laws tried to take works out of the public domain or interfered with the production of sound-alike sound recordings, which federal law specifically allows.
Archive 2009-08-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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You can even search for sound-alike names in case you have an ancestor whose name was spelled wrong.
Chris Rodda: Congratulations, Mom -- Here's Your Graduation Present 2010
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