Parts of the dialogue are direct quotes from the characters' real-world counterparts.

This is the place, she told them, silently willing them to find the real-world counterpart of the image in her mind.

The site had more than 100,000 groups, organized around real-world counterparts such as academic institutions and employers.

Each of the three factions has a play style that corresponds with its real-world counterpart.

Unfortunately, they usually don't offer any advantages over their real-world counterparts other than purely practical ones.

"Thus, the risk groups the news audience sees are very different from their real-world counterparts," was the report's conclusion.

The virtual version of the city bears close resemblance to its real-world counterpart.

Not everything that appears in the imaginary world has a real-world counterpart.

He thought that Internet companies would displace their real-world counterparts.

But then, too, the scale and impact of screen violence is far different from its real-world counterpart.