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twin

[twin] / twɪn /




NOUN
person identical to another
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They later came for her twin sister, Romina.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 19, 2026

Dasafo is survived by his two sons, Jalil and Ammar-Joseph, and twin daughters, Queen-Inaya and Queen-Imara.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 18, 2026

On the nights of January 8 and 9, twin sisters Taraneh and Romina Rahimi joined thousands of others in protests against the Iranian authorities in the central city of Isfahan.

From Barron's Sep. 17, 2026

Kremlev, 43, is also heavily involved in an organization called Healthy Fatherland, run by his 23-year-old wife’s twin sister.

From Salon Sep. 14, 2026

Between finding out I was kidnapped, that my dad may be a criminal, and that I have a mom and a twin brother, I never got a chance to tell JP what’s going on.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

They dissected Laura Owens’s claim that she was carrying Echard’s twins and grew suspicious when a photo surfaced of her at a horse show with no apparent baby bump.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 16, 2026

Barbu married a Romanian woman, Maria, in 2004 and had twins, who are now adults.

From BBC Sep. 14, 2026

"The Moon and Earth are more like fraternal twins."

From Science Daily Sep. 11, 2026

When the film’s infamous creepy twins showed up, Cregger felt a “physical wave” through his body of “visceral fear.”

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 9, 2026

Kelly gave him a small smile and waved him over, but he didn’t want to be anywhere near the Garner twins.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

“The expanded tournament, twinned with its geographical span, means that it’s by far the most emissions-intensive World Cup that we’ve ever seen,” Daley said.

From Los Angeles Times May 18, 2026

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

His 65 marks his joint lowest round at a major as he twinned his trademark long drives with skilful play around the greens.

From BBC Apr. 11, 2024

Our lives were a series of actions twinned with “just in case” reactions.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline

But all those efforts at twinning are a bit futile.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 31, 2025

As part of their visit to the city the King and Queen Consort will also visit Liverpool Central Library to officially mark its twinning with Ukraine's first public library, the Regional Scientific Library in Odesa.

From BBC Apr. 20, 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

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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