identical twin
noun
: either member of a pair of twins that are produced from a single egg and who look exactly alike
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Europe returned all but one player from the 2023 squad to Bethpage, the lone difference between an identical twin brother.
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Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 24 Apr. 2026
Online, Brigette, who is known to her over 2 million TikTok and Instagram followers as Acquired Style, shows off her daring sense of fashion and lifestyle content as an influencer living in New York City (which often features her identical twin sister Danielle).
—Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 21 Apr. 2026
Known as the twin paradox, this is the equivalent of identical twins aging differently if one of them were to travel faster than the other.
—Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 20 Apr. 2026
This unapologetically fleshy, carnal, feminine update on David Cronenberg's 1988 psychosexual classic sees Rachel Weisz brilliantly pulling double-duty as identical twin gynecologists Beverly and Elliot Mantle.
—Matt Cabral, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Apr. 2026
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Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 24 Apr. 2026
Online, Brigette, who is known to her over 2 million TikTok and Instagram followers as Acquired Style, shows off her daring sense of fashion and lifestyle content as an influencer living in New York City (which often features her identical twin sister Danielle).
—Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 21 Apr. 2026
Known as the twin paradox, this is the equivalent of identical twins aging differently if one of them were to travel faster than the other.
—Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 20 Apr. 2026
This unapologetically fleshy, carnal, feminine update on David Cronenberg's 1988 psychosexual classic sees Rachel Weisz brilliantly pulling double-duty as identical twin gynecologists Beverly and Elliot Mantle.
—Matt Cabral, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Apr. 2026
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“Identical twin.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/identical%20twin. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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