identical twins

Definition of identical twinsnext
plural of identical twin
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Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • In addition, the marks are essentially phonetic equivalents and, thus, sound similar.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Once designed, both the dresses and the tuxedo had to be replicated in duplicates to accommodate the stunt doubles and the mess that would ensue while shooting the final scene of the wedding night.
    Zoe Papelis, Vulture, 27 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Dan Hurley's parents, Bob and Christine, looked like carbon copies of their son.
    Megan Armstrong, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • Unlike many of her peers, Pau decided to maintain a professional day job while pursuing her artistic practice.
    Pauline J. Yao, Artforum, 2 May 2026
  • According to the report, around 40 percent of Black adults are getting fewer than seven hours of sleep per night on average and are less likely to wake up feeling well-rested than their Asian, white and Hispanic peers.
    Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 1 May 2026
Noun
  • One enterprise might share similarities with another, but no two businesses are exactly alike.
    Daniel Fusch, USA Today, 1 May 2026
  • These distros have some similarities to Ubuntu, but may not necessarily adopt the new AI features Canonical is rolling out.
    Stevie Bonifield, The Verge, 29 Apr. 2026
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“Identical twins.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/identical%20twins. Accessed 4 May. 2026.

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