identical twins

Definition of identical twinsnext
plural of identical twin

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Noun
  • Hoerner already has six doubles this year after tallying 29 a season ago.
    Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Kane had two doubles, two of only three Bishop Moore hits.
    Chris Hays, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • As of December, Gossamer has $137 million in cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities, enough to fund the company into the first quarter of 2027.
    Noelle Harff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Girl in America became her first album to chart on the Billboard 200 chart with 26,900 unit equivalents, opening at Number 22.
    Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 8 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The Union-Tribune is excluding from its analysis ICE records of arrests that are likely to be duplicates.
    Alexandra Mendoza, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Other names are probably duplicates, the government says, while some people may have gone off the grid voluntarily for personal reasons.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 6 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
  • The women had been made to sit silently in the gallery while the male attendees debated whether they should be allowed to participate as equals.
    Moira Donegan, New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2026
  • While the Chicago retail footprint isn’t expected to grow, O’Rourke believes the merger of relative equals will help both banks continue to build business.
    Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 12 Mar. 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
  • When talking to your peers, politeness is of paramount importance.
    Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Lemonades and Moscato d'Asti Lemonades are among the most distinctive cookies in the Girl Scout Cookie lineup, leaning on citrus rather than the richness of chocolate or peanut butter, as in many of its peers.
    Maddie Topliff, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Arthur is living for the likes, his suburban house of horrors happening to bear similarities to the anonymous McMansions preferred by so many influencers.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2026
  • More Broncos options There are plenty of similarities here to McLaughlin, actually.
    Luca Evans, Denver Post, 10 Apr. 2026
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“Identical twins.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/identical%20twins. Accessed 15 Apr. 2026.

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