identical twin

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Recent Examples of identical twin Scott, who presents most of his reno programs with identical twin Jonathan, has hosted Property Brothers since 2011. Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 27 May 2026 Julie Chan and her identical twin sister, Chloe, were separated at a young age. Literary Hub, 19 May 2026 Europe returned all but one player from the 2023 squad to Bethpage, the lone difference between an identical twin brother. Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 24 Apr. 2026 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 See All Example Sentences for identical twin
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Noun
  • Minutes after the break, midfielder Ryan Gravenberch made an underlapping run beyond Summerville to burst beyond Japan’s defence and whip a ball across the face of goal — a mirror image of Van de Ven’s positive contribution in the first half.
    Mark Carey, New York Times, 15 June 2026
  • The American media look here like fools, as does the conspiratorial mirror image imagining a vast secret US operation.
    Ben Smith, semafor.com, 15 June 2026
Noun
  • Men's singles and doubles, Women's singles and doubles, and mixed doubles.
    Jason Cohen, PC Magazine, 22 June 2026
  • Benji, the protagonist, who narrates from adulthood, is fifteen and determined to distinguish himself from the brother who’s always been his double.
    Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
Noun
  • To perform the analysis, any possible duplicates in the data were not counted.
    Laura Romero, ABC News, 12 June 2026
  • Misplacing everyday items or buying duplicates signals a need to declutter and organize.
    Sarah Lyon, The Spruce, 9 June 2026
Noun
  • Thursday’s election, the equivalent of a US special election, was triggered to pave Burnham’s route to Downing Street.
    Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 20 June 2026
  • The knockout match this time around is the equivalent of a second-round NCAA Tournament basketball game.
    Darren Sabedra, Mercury News, 20 June 2026
Noun
  • From the outside, the villa was almost a carbon copy of the Tuscan farmhouse (renovated by Crosby Studios) that graced AD’s October 2025 cover, though with a lot less chrome in the interior.
    Lauren Arzbaecher, Architectural Digest, 12 June 2026
  • No one can become a carbon copy of a past champion, no matter how hard many try.
    Shayna Goldman, New York Times, 8 June 2026
Noun
  • Drawing parallels between plant breeding and human culture, Burbank saw the environment as a high-stakes arena in which an organism’s positive traits could lift it up, thus proving its fitness compared to its weaker peers.
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 25 June 2026
  • For Natarajan, the parallel is clear.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 25 June 2026

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“Identical twin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/identical%20twin. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.

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