identical twin

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Recent Examples of identical twin Jim Whittaker Had a Twin Brother Named Lou Whittaker grew up in Seattle and began climbing in the 1940s with the Boy Scouts alongside his identical twin brother, Lou Whittaker. Ryan Brennan april 9, Miami Herald, 9 Apr. 2026 His identical twin, Rasmus, already has qualified for the Masters. ABC News, 28 Mar. 2026 Her identical twin sister, Hannah, gave her the book. Gerald Witt, AJC.com, 1 Mar. 2026 The film fuses blues music, gothic horror, nonlinear storytelling and themes of racial oppression into the story of identical twin brothers — Smoke and Stack — who return to their Mississippi hometown to bring music and culture to their local Black community. Martha Ross, Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for identical twin
Recent Examples of Synonyms for identical twin
Noun
  • But this looked like a mirror image of Game 1.
    Dan Woike, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2026
  • MacDowell and Margaret were a mirror image of each other at the closing ceremony of the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.
    Brendan Le, PEOPLE, 21 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Neto struck again in the second with an RBI double, and Adam Frazier added another in the four-run inning.
    CBS News, CBS News, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The Western Michigan recruit goes 6-for-11 with eight runs, two doubles, two home runs and seven RBIs.
    Tony Baranek, Chicago Tribune, 27 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The election is taking place after a sweeping revision of electoral rolls by the Election Commission of India aimed at removing duplicate, deceased and ineligible voters.
    ABC News, ABC News, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Of the more than 100 habeas petitions that have already been closed this year, a federal judge rejected only one, The Post found, while a few dozen more were duplicates or were dismissed voluntarily.
    Seth Klamann, Denver Post, 12 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • There is no equivalent on Chinese sets, where directors have been known to demonstrate the blocking themselves.
    Chang Che, New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2026
  • At an annual income of $31,200, the general annual equivalent of a $15 per hour salary, in Roanoke, the cost of living is 47% lower than in Arlington, according to a Forbes cost of living calculator.
    Molly Parks, The Washington Examiner, 25 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The buildup was different, but the 62nd-minute finish was a carbon copy of Navarro’s.
    Braidon Nourse, Denver Post, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Blue Ivy is growing up to look like the spitting image of her mom, Beyoncé, and the pair’s latest surprise appearance only reinforces the carbon copy claims.
    Lara Walsh, InStyle, 9 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Young people of their cohort prioritize Irish language rights and migrant rights, see a historic parallel between the oppression of Irish Catholics and Palestinians, and have a deep yearning to to bear witness to the end of British presence in the North and the reunification of Ireland.
    Dean Van Nguyen, Pitchfork, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Current two-jaw parallel grippers cannot fit into most of these spaces.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 30 Apr. 2026

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“Identical twin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/identical%20twin. Accessed 2 May. 2026.

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