Meanings
plural doppelgängers
- alternativeAlternative spelling of doppelganger.
Robin’s doppelgänger looked Robin up and down for a moment, then seemed to come to a decision.
2022, R. F. Kuang, Babel, HarperVoyager, page 671 more example
It just speaks to these unlikely bedfellows — like my doppelgänger and Steve Bannon. It’s kind of an alternative to the horseshoe theory, I suppose, because the horseshoe theory sort of assumes that it’s the far left and far right.
2026 March 20, Ezra Klein, quoting Naomi Klein, “We’re All Living in the ‘Mirror World’ Now”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
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doppelgänger. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/doppelg%C3%A4nger
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