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twin

[twin] / twɪn /




NOUN
person identical to another
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Horton is survived by her husband, Patrick; their children, Jonathan and Holly; her twin sister, Heather Quella, and other loved ones.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Declonius Peck, its beloved editor-in-chief, has gone to prison for embezzlement, and his evil twin, Salton, has assumed management of the family business, along with the 39 editors who curate the periodical.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

"I think that's something that took me probably the best part of 10 years to understand," she adds, noting that her twin sister did start university in 2011 and had less debt as a result.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

“It did look like me,” Haaland says of his veggie twin.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

I always figured that she was a twin sister to the cow that jumped over the moon.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

The actor froze her eggs at age 37 and became pregnant with her twins a decade later, she recalled to Women’s Health in 2025.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

Zoe Lee and Hannah Marriott, researchers at Cardiff Business School said AI-generation fashion models and digital twins, virtual replicas of real models are becoming more common.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

She then put the property on the market for $29.9 million in May, just two months before her youngest children, twins Knox and Vivienne, celebrated their 18th birthdays.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

When prolific filmmaker Werner Herzog first met the Chaplin twins, Freda and Greta, the internet as we know it did not exist.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

Not twins, technically speaking, but eleven months apart is practically the same thing.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

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

Months at first, then anniversaries, birthdays twinned in the mental calendar with dates of death.

From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2024

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

Our lives were a series of actions twinned with “just in case” reactions.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline

But all those efforts at twinning are a bit futile.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

In 1980, he was involved in flying the Palestinian flag from the offices of Dundee Council, and was involved in the twinning of Dundee with the West Bank town of Nablus.

From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2024

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


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