Alter ego and Familiar

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Alter ego noun - A person who has a strong liking for and trust in another.

Usage example: over the years the state's other senator became his alter ego as well as his political ally

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Familiar and alter ego are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Familiar" instead a noun phrase "Alter ego".

Familiar noun - A person who has a strong liking for and trust in another.

Usage example: with old familiars the normally reserved writer can be quite warm and funny

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Alter ego and familiar are semantically related. You can use "Alter ego" instead a noun "Familiar".

Merlin's Older Alter Ego looks, sounds, and acts nothing like him and yet everyone says his "eyes are familiar".

Source: Clark Kenting
Calvin and Hobbes: In the 10th Anniversary Collection, Bill Watterson admits that he's "not at all familiar with Film Noir or detective novels", so the stories featuring Calvin's Hard Boiled Detective alter ego Tracer Bullet are "just spoofs on the clichés of the genre."

Source: Pop-Cultural Osmosis

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