identical twin

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Recent Examples of identical twin 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 His identical twin, Rasmus, already has qualified for the Masters. ABC News, 28 Mar. 2026 Her identical twin sister, Hannah, gave her the book. Gerald Witt, AJC.com, 1 Mar. 2026 The film fuses blues music, gothic horror, nonlinear storytelling and themes of racial oppression into the story of identical twin brothers — Smoke and Stack — who return to their Mississippi hometown to bring music and culture to their local Black community. Martha Ross, Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for identical twin
Recent Examples of Synonyms for identical twin
Noun
  • But this looked like a mirror image of Game 1.
    Dan Woike, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2026
  • MacDowell and Margaret were a mirror image of each other at the closing ceremony of the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.
    Brendan Le, PEOPLE, 21 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The Trojans won the doubles point only to lose all five of their singles matches to finish 5-1.
    Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2026
  • Below, the lower deck is home to two doubles and two twins.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 11 May 2026
Noun
  • Creating a Dayton duplicate is less work for the NCAA, after all.
    Jon Wilner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Apr. 2026
  • 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
Noun
  • Sixty-five years later, two of the most consequential business leaders of this century — Tim Cook of Apple and Reed Hastings of Netflix — have given us the corporate equivalent.
    Paul Hardart, Fortune, 9 May 2026
  • Researchers now hope to push the double copy framework even further by searching for particle-physics equivalents of other black hole features, including the event horizon itself — the boundary beyond which nothing can escape.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 9 May 2026
Noun
  • Princess Charlotte is a near carbon copy of her dad, Prince William, in new birthday portrait.
    Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 2 May 2026
  • The buildup was different, but the 62nd-minute finish was a carbon copy of Navarro’s.
    Braidon Nourse, Denver Post, 19 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The accepted wisdom in yacht design has been that the fastest ocean passages can only be achieved by multihull craft, such as the current crop of Ultim trimarans, which have three hulls in parallel and have set the big records of the past decade.
    Andrew Rice, New York Times, 7 May 2026
  • Crowder often uses the farm-to-table food and circular fashion movements as parallels to help explain her belief in confronting issues like supply chain transparency, pesticide use, and unsustainable shipping practices.
    Liam Hess, Vogue, 7 May 2026

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“Identical twin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/identical%20twin. Accessed 15 May. 2026.

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