identical twins

Definition of identical twinsnext
plural of identical twin

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for identical twins
Noun
  • In doubles, the team of Lily Fairclough and Dani Borruel ranks sixth in the nation.
    Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Law wrote Willits projects to be more of a doubles and triples hitter rather than homers in his best years.
    Larry Holder, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Most experts recommend maintaining one to three years of expenses in cash or cash equivalents, plus an emergency fund that covers several months' worth of expenses.
    Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 20 Jan. 2026
  • These are typically significantly lighter than Garmin’s silicone equivalents.
    Andrew Williams, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Genebanks send duplicates of their collections to fellow genebanks to ensure an even higher level of safety, should anything happen to their own collection.
    Julia Daye, Popular Science, 25 Dec. 2025
  • In total, Jim amassed 262 pages of spreadsheets and a final count of 1,531 pairs of unique socks, with no duplicates.
    Joe Brandt, CBS News, 19 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • And these mirror images, uniting perceptions barely conscious, were to constitute the basis from which his pilot’s dreams would someday take flight.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 Jan. 2026
  • In Black Swan, Nina is surrounded by creepy mirror images.
    Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 12 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • This notion of the Swedish welfare state as having been built by equals, by an initial largely rural and poor population, arguably distracted these pensioners from questions of wealth accumulation.
    Miranda Sheild Johansson, Fortune, 22 Jan. 2026
  • The wealth-equals-health dynamic played out glaringly in Orange County during the pandemic.
    Andre Mouchard, Oc Register, 9 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • That sort of humility should also come through your hiring, Halligan advised; your team should be full of people who challenge and frustrate you with their differences, rather than carbon copies of yourself.
    Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Lindbergh and Parent were carbon copies of each other on the ice, too — the style, the plain white mask, their similar statures — just how Lindbergh envisioned it from an early age.
    Kevin Kurz, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Those results compounded already existing research that showed LGBTQ young people were at least four times as likely to attempt suicide compared with their peers outside of the LGBTQ community.
    Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 12 Jan. 2026
  • JPMorgan helps kickstart earnings season tomorrow, followed by peers including Citigroup, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs later in the week.
    Alex Harring, CNBC, 12 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Given the similarities of her current outfit to her previous one from 1996, Barose felt that night’s makeup was the perfect jumping off point for today.
    Jackie Fields, PEOPLE, 12 Jan. 2026
  • The similarities started from the moment the team was announced — eight changes from the midweek Premier League defeat by Fulham, continuing the same approach to squad management — and continued after kick-off.
    Cerys Jones, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2026
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“Identical twins.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/identical%20twins. Accessed 23 Jan. 2026.

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