IDENTICAL TWINS Synonyms: 32 Similar and Opposite Words

identical twins

noun

plural of identical twin

as in doubles

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Noun

Eala took bronze medals in singles and mixed doubles (with partner Francis Alcantara) at the 2023 Asian Games and is a favorite for gold this time.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 Sep. 2026
Top performers Matt Olson has 34 doubles, 41 home runs and 93 RBIs for the Braves.

— CBS News, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of doubles

Noun

Dune reports that the total supply of tokenized real-world assets has exceeded $34 billion in 2026, and major categories—including cash equivalents and commodities—have more than doubled over the past year.

— Camila Grigera Naón, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2026
The Pro editions of the software updater and password manager don’t do much beyond their free equivalents.

— Neil J. Rubenking, PC Magazine, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of equivalents

Noun

Finally, under Performance, the photo cleaner offered to free up storage space by deleting duplicate photos and photos that, while not exact duplicates, are very similar.

— Neil J. Rubenking, PC Magazine, 30 Sep. 2026
The list of candidates for the top prize duplicates last year’s roster of EOTY nominees, with the exception of Langley taking the spot that went to Morgan Wallen in 2024.

— Chris Willman, Variety, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of duplicates

Noun

The narrator spends years assembling the truth of this death, concealed by his family, and discovers that Calcutta and Dhaka experienced those riots as mirror images of each other.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 July 2026
Foreign Tongues was built around leftover material from the Hackney Diamonds sessions, and the two albums are such mirror images of one another that they may as well have been released together, Use Your Illusion-style.

— Stuart Berman, Pitchfork, 13 July 2026

Definition of mirror images

Noun

While the new country’s first decade set the stage for violent conflict, there was a time when the societies were learning from each other, shaping each other, and negotiating as near equals.

— Scott Baldauf, Christian Science Monitor, 17 Sep. 2026
In this way, Rovelli recognizes them as the equals of Plato, Aristotle and others in their ability to penetrate difficult questions of reality but doing so from a different perspective.

— Adam Frank, NPR, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of equals

Noun

Their resemblance is uncanny; near carbon copies, some thirty years apart.

— Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2026
The matches — admittedly played in much less friendly environments than Monday – were almost carbon copies of the Americans’ loss to Belgium.

— Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026

Definition of carbon copies

Noun

This twin achievement of expanding its treasury and posting outsize shareholder returns puts the Hyperliquid DAT in stark contrast to its peers.

— Camila Grigera Naón, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2026
Long-lived healthy adults tend to have microbiomes that are richer in bacterial diversity than those of their chronological peers, with the former having gut bacteria that look more like those of younger, healthier adults.

— Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of peers

Noun

Klobuchar noted the similarities in Atlanta’s and Iowa’s team names and accused Schmitt of relying on false information to suggest Smith had secretly traveled to Atlanta.

— Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 30 Sep. 2026
Bono was a fan of Rosalía’s 2025 album Lux and acknowledged the similarities between their two album titles, both inspired by light.

— Jack Irvin, PEOPLE, 28 Sep. 2026

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