twin
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One of the center's goals is to build a detailed model, or "digital twin," of the heliosphere.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 2, 2026
Young Pavi and her twin sister, Nisha, live in a world that no longer sees the Avatar as humanity’s savior after it was devastated by a calamity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
My twin brother was given a lifetime right to live in the house where he currently resides.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
Her twin girls, now four, "had a speech delay and some learning difficulties" - but Stewart noticed a change after just the second book.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
Delia followed her twin sister into the barn, but not before she gave me an apologetic smile.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
If Roman succeeds, it will put scientists one step closer to a future Habitable Worlds Observatory that searches for Earth twins — and perhaps one step closer to finding our cosmic neighbors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
During his recovery, Maddison's partner gave birth to their second set of twins.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
Sisters Anita Marie and Maria Francine, biological twins with the Sisters of Notre Dame, stood at the door to the ICE office wearing their traditional habits.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
The stock market’s identical twins are looking like opposites.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
“The Blake twins, Alexander and Alexis, who now goes by Nichole, are officially considered to be on the run,” the original reporter says.
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
Jet engines, factories and even executives have been twinned.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
One of his own last posts was in memoriam of David Thomas, leader of the avant-garde Pere Ubu, twinned with “kindred spirit” Chicago Bears defensive tackle Steve McMichael, who died the same day.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2025
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
One welcomed drivers to "Pot Hole City - twinned with Grand Canyon" and another named a roundabout "Pot Holy Island".
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 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
Curiously enough, the village is not the only one in the Scottish Borders to boast a "twinning" with a fictional movie location either.
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
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
