twin
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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