twin
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They later came for her twin sister, Romina.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
Dasafo is survived by his two sons, Jalil and Ammar-Joseph, and twin daughters, Queen-Inaya and Queen-Imara.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
On the nights of January 8 and 9, twin sisters Taraneh and Romina Rahimi joined thousands of others in protests against the Iranian authorities in the central city of Isfahan.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
She has been MP for Wallasey since 1992 and was joined in the Commons in 1997 by her identical twin sister Maria Eagle.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
There were twin whimpers from the cradle, as the babies briefly roused and then sank back into their newborn dreams.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
She then put the property on the market for $29.9 million in May, just two months before her youngest children, twins Knox and Vivienne, celebrated their 18th birthdays.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
No doubt the TikTok amateur detectives would’ve momentarily shifted from true crime to the Chaplin twins, trying their damnedest to debunk what only the sisters could truly understand.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
Nogbou founded Leeds Baby Bank in 2017 when she was a single parent of four children, including twins, and she realised how many other families were struggling.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
When she finally saw the twins again, in Isfahan’s female prison, their mother could hardly recognize them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
Had the twins done this to get him in trouble?
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
Is it this twinned violence and fecundity that feeds our dread?
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 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
Congress held hearings in 2020 investigating the twinned tragedies in Ethiopia and Indonesia, crashes caused primarily by engineering mistakes at Boeing.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 8, 2024
Our lives were a series of actions twinned with “just in case” reactions.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
But all those efforts at twinning are a bit futile.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
Andy Burnham said Manchester has a twinning arrangement with Wuhan, which was the epicentre of the Covid pandemic.
From BBC ● Nov. 27, 2023
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
