twin
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Young Anakin’s podracer, a striped cockpit strapped to twin shuttlecock engines, stretches down one side of an aisle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
He and his wife Lucy, a teacher, and twin daughters Isabella and Victoria, 23, bought four pairs on their trip to Japan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
Don’t miss: ‘It’s not fair’: My twin brother and I were left houses by our parents.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 7, 2026
I have my doubts about making the Cayenne Electric the near twin of its gas-powered relative.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
He had twin girls, who’d recently turned five and went to Stirling Elementary.
From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty
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"The Moon and Earth are more like fraternal twins."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
The power couple have three children, daughter Blue Ivy, 14, and 9-year-old twins, Rumi and Sir.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
If Roman succeeds, it will put scientists one step closer to a future Habitable Worlds Observatory that searches for Earth twins — and perhaps one step closer to finding our cosmic neighbors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
He hits with his kids, twins Charlene Riva and Myla Rose, and Leo and Lenny, who are getting “older and better.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
A few days ago, he was in Staten Island, trying to avoid getting noogies from the Garner twins.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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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
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
With its twinned strands of dedication and philanthropy, it should be every billionaire’s bedtime watch.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2024
Sabres and pistols and fencing foils, each twinned with another, prepared for dozens of potential duels.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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Some are twinning a trip to the gym with coffee mornings or protein smoothie meet-ups - further boosting the social experience.
From BBC ● Mar. 21, 2026
But all those efforts at twinning are a bit futile.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
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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