Siamese twin
Example Sentences
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"Trieste and Hamburg are Siamese twins. They are two important ports, both located on strategic corridors connecting the cold seas to the Mediterranean," he told Reuters.
From Reuters
“My personal and my sociological lives are joined at the hip, heart and head, like Siamese twins,” she wrote in an autobiographical essay published in the 1996 collection “Radically Speaking: Feminism Reclaimed.”
From Washington Post
A newswoman and a private eye probe a murder confused by separated Siamese twins.
From Los Angeles Times
The two were inseparable; writers referred to them as “the Siamese twins” and called King Buchanan’s “better half” and “his wife”.
From The Guardian
Two-headed snakes are usually born the same way as Siamese twins: a developing embryo begins to split into identical twins - but then stops part way.
From BBC
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