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twin

[twin] / twɪn /




NOUN
person identical to another
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It’s not just a shrewd making-of story but also a kind of twin to its source.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

And a deceptively familiar face will replace Rep. Troy Nehls – that of his identical twin brother, Trever Nehls, who served in the U.S.

From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026

The achievement was even recognized by Guinness World Records, which presented a commemorative plaque to Perseverance's engineering twin on Earth.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026

This is due to her wanting to spend as much time as possible in caring for her twin daughters, who suffer from a muscle-wasting condition, the paper reports.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

A squeaky new metal frame twin bed, neatly made up with sheets straight out of the store packaging, was crammed into the space.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

One of the UK's smallest accredited zoos is celebrating after "extra special" pied tamarin twins were born at the site.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

The council member added that she was taking a brief pause in the middle of the day to go to an 11th birthday bowling party for her twins.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2026

Speaking of twins, Kia sent me two, nearly identical Tellurides, one with a hybrid-assisted 2.5-liter under the hood; the other powered by a non-hybrid version of the same engine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026

Otherwise, he would lose the plan that also covered his husband and their 11-year-old twins.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

Beside him, seven-foot-tall twins strum hologram guitars and sing a song of gratitude for safe sisters and two-spirit relatives.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Jet engines, factories and even executives have been twinned.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 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

One welcomed drivers to "Pot Hole City - twinned with Grand Canyon" and another named a roundabout "Pot Holy Island".

From BBC ● Apr. 29, 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

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

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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