twin
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He and his twin sister were two years old when Madeleine, then aged three, went missing during a family holiday in Praia Da Luz, Portugal, in 2007.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
That’s the estimated cost of rebuilding Venezuela after devastating twin earthquakes last month.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
How could he embrace this stranger as his twin?
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026
They are heading for the remote village of Chichiriviche de la Costa, which escaped the twin disasters on June 24 relatively unscathed but has seen its resources cut off in the fallout.
From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026
Looking at the two hills to the left of us, depicted as twin fists almost touching each other on the map, I wanted to cry.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
“Whimsical” is the word most frequently used to describe the work of artist-designer twins Nikolai and Simon Haas, who are the subject of a midcareer survey at the Museum of Arts and Design.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
One user told Palmer about how both their twins had died in their arms—one after 10 minutes, the other after 10 days.
From Slate ● Jul. 19, 2026
“Despite the similarities that twins have, there’s still this dynamic of like an older and a younger,” said Yume Miyamoto, who voices Asa.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026
The twins have been part of a major study led by Dr Guevara, who had noticed that the incidence of diseases such as cancer and diabetes among Laron patients was lower than in the general population.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
The prickling sensation on the back of his neck returned and he didn’t have the twins to explain it.
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
These twinned crises put the U.S. on its slow, foot-dragging path toward energy independence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2026
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
But all those efforts at twinning are a bit futile.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
It was a small enough step from that to putting up the twinning sign.
From BBC ● Dec. 23, 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
