Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for identical twins
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Venus and her sister Serena owned the doubles circuit for many years, winning 14 Grand Slams and three Olympic golds.—
Alex Valdes,
New York Times,
13 Jan. 2026 -
But Zeus cut these doubles in half, and ever since our souls have longed to reunite with their lost mate.—
Adam Kirsch,
The Atlantic,
13 Jan. 2026
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Both remain short of the team equivalents in the United States.—
Matthew Futterman,
New York Times,
6 Jan. 2026
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Dry cereal, such as Cheerios, Kix, Chex, or store-brand equivalents.—
Sarah Moore,
Freep.com,
21 Dec. 2025
Noun
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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
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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
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Auto critic Mark Phelan put the finishing touches on his picks for the annual Car, Truck and Utility vehicle of the year, while autos team newbie Liam Rappleye waxed poetic about a custom Chrysler mash-up of minivans whose frontend and backend are mirror images.—
Nicole Avery Nichols,
Freep.com,
30 Dec. 2025
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Both even share the same chunky sole unit, and the lines on the two uppers are near mirror images of each other.—
Ian Servantes,
Footwear News,
29 Oct. 2025
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The wealth-equals-health dynamic played out glaringly in Orange County during the pandemic.—
Andre Mouchard,
Oc Register,
9 Jan. 2026
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Before the war, other governments could at least claim to be Washington’s equals.—
Caleb Pomeroy,
Foreign Affairs,
24 Dec. 2025
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 20 Jan. 2026.
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