twin
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Traditional studios and TV networks have shed tens of thousands of workers in recent years after the streaming bubble burst and twin labor strikes paused projects.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
The twin earthquakes on June 24, which killed 6,500 people in Venezuela, were an inflection point for her.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
He is survived by two sons, Jalil and Ammar-Joseph, and twin daughters, Queen-Inaya and Queen-Imara.
From BBC ● 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 and her twin unrolled the bills, laying them in neat stacks over a flat rock a few feet away.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
"Their tradition lives on in my own kitchen, where my twins now enjoy properly salted, never sweet porridge cooked by me or their grandad," he said.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
Michigan, California and Loyola Marymount were also finalists for the twins who were coached last season by Justin Siegel, a new assistant coach at Loyola Marymount.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
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
When prolific filmmaker Werner Herzog first met the Chaplin twins, Freda and Greta, the internet as we know it did not exist.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
The helicopter swooped around and headed for the twins.
From "I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980" by Lauren Tarshis
Is it this twinned violence and fecundity that feeds our dread?
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
Laki-Laki, which means "man" in Indonesian, is twinned with the calmer but taller 1,703m named Perempuan, the Indonesian word for "woman".
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2025
Set in Vietnam in 2001 and focused, ostensibly, on its two eponymous characters, this is a film about mirrored visions of history and twinned versions of desire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2025
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
Sabres and pistols and fencing foils, each twinned with another, prepared for dozens of potential duels.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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
Because two to three weeks after conception, twinning might occur.
From Washington Post ● May 18, 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
His spirit, depleted by his own depredations, pulsed too fast through his veins, twinning with a whirr and discordant jangle of...of disbelief crashing against evidence, producing a sensation of disfaith.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
