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twin

[twin] / twɪn /




NOUN
person identical to another
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Whether he chooses to fulfill his destiny alongside his twin remains to be seen.

From Salon Jul. 18, 2026

They are heading for the remote village of Chichiriviche de la Costa, which escaped the twin disasters on June 24 relatively unscathed but has seen its resources cut off in the fallout.

From Barron's Jul. 18, 2026

Kim Kardashian paid tribute to Campbell on social media, describing her as her as "my best friend, my gossip buddy, my forever twin".

From BBC Jul. 16, 2026

One creator recently posted affiliate-marketing videos that depicted her AI twin using products from Rare Beauty, the cosmetics brand founded by actress and pop star Selena Gomez.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 15, 2026

He went right to his narrow twin bed, fished out The Way to Rio Luna from under the covers, and hid it on a dusty shelf in the garage.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

Teacher Kieron Fisher, who lives in Newbury, Berkshire, includes vegetables in meals his six-year-old twins Kit and Ollie already enjoy, such as curries and spaghetti Bolognese.

From BBC Jul. 21, 2026

One user told Palmer about how both their twins had died in their arms—one after 10 minutes, the other after 10 days.

From Slate Jul. 19, 2026

The prophecy also claims that the fated twins have the power to command daemons, supernatural beings with unearthly abilities.

From Salon Jul. 18, 2026

The first flames would have reacted with the flammable materials to produce carbon monoxide and hydrogen cyanide, often known as the "toxic twins" of fire smoke, he explains.

From BBC Jul. 14, 2026

Any show of effort by the twins was as rare as a great comet, and she intended to take advantage.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

Is it this twinned violence and fecundity that feeds our dread?

From The Wall Street Journal May 15, 2026

Months at first, then anniversaries, birthdays twinned in the mental calendar with dates of death.

From BBC Nov. 25, 2024

Those tour de force scenes are a reminder of Fisher’s canny ear for the specific cadence of Angelenos fully immersed in the twinned make-believe worlds of moviemaking and self-delusion.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 8, 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

Sabres and pistols and fencing foils, each twinned with another, prepared for dozens of potential duels.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

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

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




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