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Noun
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Odom also went 3-for-3 with two doubles and 4 RBI.—
Buddy Collings,
The Orlando Sentinel,
29 Apr. 2026 -
Machado had a single and two doubles, giving him 400 doubles in his career.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
28 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Bose pros Bose products are known for their rich sound, and although Bose is a top audio equipment brand, many of them are more affordable than Sonos equivalents.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
23 Apr. 2026
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In addition, the marks are essentially phonetic equivalents and, thus, sound similar.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Apr. 2026
Noun
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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
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The Union-Tribune is excluding from its analysis ICE records of arrests that are likely to be duplicates.—
Alexandra Mendoza,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Not just related to the writing process, replicas and their cousins (mirror images, lookalikes, doubles/multiples) appear throughout the book across generations, and between friends and strangers.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Apr. 2026
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Liann and Taylor are like mirror images of one another, each with a bent knee resting on the window and the other foot on the floor.—
Kathleen Walsh,
Vulture,
13 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Even a 6% discrepancy in funding (which is roughly what the $135 million shortfall equals) ends up being an enormous amount of money.—
John Romano,
The Orlando Sentinel,
28 Apr. 2026
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Before the leagues’ recent expansions prior to the 2024 season, the SEC was merely the top conference among equals in producing NFL talent.—
Scott Dochterman,
New York Times,
26 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Dan Hurley's parents, Bob and Christine, looked like carbon copies of their son.—
Megan Armstrong,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Mar. 2026
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Opposite Friends Song Friends don’t have to be carbon copies of each other—or do all the things the other one does in exactly the same way.—
Kara Nesvig,
Parents,
13 Mar. 2026
Noun
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His new measurement of the gravitational constant, or G, one of the most fundamental values in physics, was going to be revealed to his peers that afternoon.—
Emma Gometz,
Scientific American,
24 Apr. 2026
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Today, the average Black 12th grader scores lower than about 75 percent of his or her white peers.—
Steven F. Wilson,
The Atlantic,
24 Apr. 2026
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Investigators have pointed to similarities in timing and method, suggesting both attacks may have been linked.—
Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
21 Apr. 2026
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Jason Robertson isn’t quite Ralph Cox, but there are unnerving similarities, and there is nothing the Dallas Stars forward can do to change that reality.—
Mac Engel
April 21,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
21 Apr. 2026
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“Identical twins.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/identical%20twins. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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