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twin

[twin] / twɪn /




NOUN
person identical to another
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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

"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

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

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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