twin
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Not everyone is fated to save the world with their prophecy-fulfilling twin.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026
Machado tried to return to Venezuela shortly after the twin earthquakes but failed to make it into the country.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
Likewise, Lupita Nyong’o’s Helen is regal and formidable, but it’s a mistake to double-cast her as Helen’s twin sister, Clytemnestra.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
One creator recently posted affiliate-marketing videos that depicted her AI twin using products from Rare Beauty, the cosmetics brand founded by actress and pop star Selena Gomez.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
It was the first time in history that the twin ingredients of bronze—copper and tin—had ever been found in close proximity to each other, on land or at the bottom of the sea.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
“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 prophecy also claims that the fated twins have the power to command daemons, supernatural beings with unearthly abilities.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026
The DTCC-held tokens are essentially the digital twins of existing shares and can be converted back into traditional shares.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
The six different species of Ebola are known as "sisters rather than twins" because while they are similar, they need separate treatments and vaccines.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
Usually the twins made fun of him for liking the library, but in that moment, he didn’t feel so strange and out of place for loving books.
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
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
With its twinned strands of dedication and philanthropy, it should be every billionaire’s bedtime watch.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2024
Julie Palmer, from Begbies Traynor, said this was down to a combination of higher inflation and borrowing costs twinned with weaker consumer confidence and demand.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2023
My nail-bitten fingers twinned with his, pale and webbed with purple veins.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
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
There’s a case to be made for the twinning of these events.
From Washington Post ● May 19, 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
