conjoined
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They added: "We witness first-hand the medical challenges that these children and their families endure, which makes the portrayal of conjoined twins as a form of entertainment or spectacle especially problematic."
From BBC • Feb. 26, 2026
The conjoined entrance into the NBA of Bird and Magic in 1979 went a long way toward saving a league in free fall.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026
They married in 1954, but it wasn’t until 1963 that the conjoined career of Stiller and Maera took off, with an appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2025
He also claimed that in 2002 he helped bring conjoined newborns from Guatemala to Los Angeles, where they underwent an incredibly complicated, highly publicized surgery.
From Slate • May 29, 2024
In some species, the members are so tied to each other and interdependent as to seem the loosely conjoined cells of a tissue.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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