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twin

[twin] / twɪn /




NOUN
person identical to another
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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

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

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

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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