twain
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That’s why, if you don’t want your house cleaved in twain, diagnosing your trees is best left to a certified arborist.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026
As with “Atlanta,” “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” presents Glover in a zero-overlap zone where acting is acting and music is music and never the twain shall meet.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 13, 2024
As long as the twain never meet, we’re good — and by we, I mean humankind.
From New York Times • Mar. 28, 2024
“This is one of the evils of the ‘two cultures’ myth,” he says: Some students are channeled into scientific subjects, and others into humanities, and “never the twain shall meet.”
From Science Magazine • Jan. 18, 2023
And at Batavia High School, never the twain shall meet.
From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed
Vocabulary lists containing twain
"The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet," Vocabulary from Act 3
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"The Tragedy of Macbeth," Vocabulary from Act 3
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The Merchant of Venice
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