twin
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One of the center's goals is to build a detailed model, or "digital twin," of the heliosphere.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 2, 2026
However, if your twin brother is already occupying one of the properties, he should be liable for routine costs like utilities, repairs and upkeep.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
Young Pavi and her twin sister, Nisha, live in a world that no longer sees the Avatar as humanity’s savior after it was devastated by a calamity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
Across the globe in Australia, a toddler with speech delays delighted her family with her first word - "orange" - after she and her twin sister received a free book in the post about colours.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
Now her job was to instruct the eldest children of the Babushkinov household: twelve-year-old Veronika and the eight-year-old twin boys, Boris and Constantin.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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During his recovery, Maddison's partner gave birth to their second set of twins.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
But Sawyer said care for their youngest twins, set to start next June, will be “ripped away.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
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
But the twins were never going to let him have any kind of happiness.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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Jet engines, factories and even executives have been twinned.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 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
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
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
My nail-bitten fingers twinned with his, pale and webbed with purple veins.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
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But all those efforts at twinning are a bit futile.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
It was a small enough step from that to putting up the twinning sign.
From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2023
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
On the refrains her voice spun, twinning and mixing with my own.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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