identical twins

noun

plural of identical twin
as in doubles

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  1. doubles
  2. equivalents
  3. duplicates
  4. mirror images
  5. equals
  6. carbon copies
  7. peers
  8. similarities
Noun
  • Langford’s three hits included two doubles and matched his season high.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 25 July 2026
  • The singles event will start Thursday July 20, with 64-player draws; men’s and women’s doubles will have 32-player draws and mixed doubles 16.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 24 July 2026
Definition of doubles
Noun
  • Many can be purchased for less that the Macallan equivalents, giving even more scope for exploration and expanding your at home bar selection.
    — Mark Littler, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
  • The exhibitor generated $190 million in free cash flow and ended the quarter with $778 million of cash and cash equivalents.
    — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 20 July 2026
Definition of equivalents
Noun
  • Julian Cruhigger, a veteran trader who began four World Cups ago, was able to find 40 stickers for their album among his duplicates.
    — Maria Jose Gutierrez-Chavez, Curbed, 17 July 2026
  • Johns discovered that there was a small detail on the dress’ backside that duplicates often got wrong.
    — Rance Collins, Entertainment Weekly, 17 July 2026
Definition of duplicates
Noun
  • 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
  • Parker, who also shares son James, 23, with husband Matthew Broderick, previously pushed back on the stereotype that her twins are mirror images of each other.
    — Lara Walsh, InStyle, 23 June 2026
Definition of mirror images
Noun
  • This is a partnership of equals—not in the size of our populations, but in the depth of our commitments.
    — Naftali Bennett, Time, 9 July 2026
  • Those implementations must treat policy design and technical design as equals.
    — Maghnus Mareneck, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
Definition of equals
Noun
  • 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
  • Their second and third goals were almost carbon copies, too.
    — Carl Anka, New York Times, 20 June 2026
Definition of carbon copies
Noun
  • Neurodivergent applicants may struggle to communicate effectively in an interview but outperform their peers in the actual job.
    — Cami Fateh, Vogue, 22 July 2026
  • Dell Technologies , Hewlett Packard Enterprise — Super Micro Computer’s surge spilled over to its server peers, with the group as a whole boosted by the better-than-expected preliminary results.
    — Davis Giangiulio, CNBC, 22 July 2026
Definition of peers
Noun
  • Robo is not Hatch, but there are enough similarities that under no circumstance should Nill let Robertson become a free agent.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 July 2026
  • Three longtime Philadelphia police officers developed the same rare cancer, and the similarities in their cases were hard to ignore.
    — Matt Lavietes, NBC news, 23 July 2026
Definition of similarities
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