twins

plural of twin

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Recent Examples of twins Harris pointed to Harris and Gill’s healthy older child, who was also living in the home, as evidence that something else was going on with the twins. — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 22 Oct. 2026 The pathologists who examined the twins also said their causes of death were undetermined, Filicetti said. — CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026 The following year, the channel produced a follow-up special featuring the parents, twins, and sextuplets, and three months later, a regular series started shooting. — Isabella Albaig, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2026 The show documented the Gosselin family, which included sextuplets and twins. — William Earl, Variety, 21 Oct. 2026 This past year, the duo of Mexican American twins have gotten support and a big push from Fuerza Regida frontman Jesús Ortiz Paz. — Lucas Villa, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2026 The twins, Dallas, a girl, and Tyson, a boy, were 18 months old. — Sally Krutzig, Idaho Statesman, 20 Oct. 2026 The couple first welcomed twins, Conor and Josie, but their daughter tragically died days after her birth. — Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2026 The truth is, Stuttgart has had great success with pretty much every kind of configuration; the midship supercars are just the least common (the Boxster/Cayman twins are superb, but not quite super). — Caleb Jacobs, The Drive, 15 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for twins
Noun
  • Roast halves cut side down rather than boiling them, since roasting concentrates the sugars and cuts moisture.
    — Lauren Schuster, Sacbee.com, 21 Oct. 2026
  • The exhibition, which opened Sunday in East Hollywood, aims to unify both halves of his work.
    — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • In her hometown of Yefremov, about 300 kilometers (185 miles) south of Moscow and about halfway to the border with Ukraine, Masha’s teacher had asked the class to draw pictures supporting Russian troops.
    — Melissa Bell, CNN Money, 20 Oct. 2026
  • And there was a photographer who seemed to be taking an endless number of pictures.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 20 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • He was charged with one count of disclosing private images and two counts of felony secret peeping.
    — Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 21 Oct. 2026
  • The media periodically released vits and images of the place.
    — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 21 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Rights, approvals and protections for digital replicas, voice, likeness and content now have to be addressed up front, not as an afterthought.
    — Claudia Rosenbaum, HollywoodReporter, 21 Oct. 2026
  • In honor of the nation’s 250th anniversary, researchers at Penn State University have modeled its acoustic properties, drawing on data collected from one of the bell’s replicas.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 15 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Since its earliest days, the video game industry has been built on developers creating clones of competing games, with varying levels of originality and varying levels of enforcement from game platforms.
    — Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 19 Oct. 2026
  • In other words, the researchers were able to produce both male and female clones from the same donor male.
    — Gennaro Tomma, Scientific American, 13 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • They were never intended to be used on paintings, where two portraits of the same sitter may have major differences in style and technique.
    — Karen Chernick, ARTnews.com, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Punk icon Martin Sorrondeguy of Los Crudos shot portraits of Twisted Teens in Chicago this summer.
    — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 21 Oct. 2026

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“Twins.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/twins. Accessed 27 Oct. 2026.

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