twin
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The novel introduces us to twin sisters who play, and come to deeply inhabit, the roles of a single girl’s body and soul during Victorian-era séances staged by their parents.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
If an artificial "twin" requires greater complexity to imitate the behavior of a biological neuron, then the biological neuron itself has greater computational power.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026
The devastation comes less than two months after powerful twin quakes rattled neighboring Venezuela, killing more than 6,300 people and leaving tens of thousands homeless.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
Serú Girán and Texas Tornados are probably the twin pillars, but beyond that?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
Delia joined her twin to shake her legs out and kicked at Pita in the process.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
Sisters Anita Marie and Maria Francine, biological twins with the Sisters of Notre Dame, stood at the door to the ICE office wearing their traditional habits.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
George, 65, Amal, 48, and their 9-year-old twins, Alexander and Ella, live in the town of Brignoles in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region of southeastern France.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
The Clooneys bought property in France — a farm, he recently told Esquire — in August 2021 for $8.3 million, when their twins were 4.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
Fertility organizations have urged clinics in recent years to limit surrogate pregnancies to one embryo, citing higher risks of carrying twins or triplets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
The twins even wore cream-and-orange baseball jerseys to match their dad.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
Jet engines, factories and even executives have been twinned.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
These twinned crises put the U.S. on its slow, foot-dragging path toward energy independence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2026
And I suppose these twinned non-endorsements did make sense, if you’ve been tracking the trajectory of these two newspapers—and the news business in general—over the past few years.
From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2024
One welcomed drivers to "Pot Hole City - twinned with Grand Canyon" and another named a roundabout "Pot Holy Island".
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2024
Our lives were a series of actions twinned with “just in case” reactions.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
But it also has meant that she ends up twinning with her father, who is fond of wearing black leather jackets and trench coats.
From BBC ● May 5, 2026
But all those efforts at twinning are a bit futile.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
There’s a case to be made for the twinning of these events.
From Washington Post ● May 19, 2022
Jessica Beck, a curator at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, came up with the idea of twinning the artists as a way of reintroducing Marisol and showing the overlap of ideas and influence.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2022
On the refrains her voice spun, twinning and mixing with my own.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
