identical twin

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Recent Examples of identical twin In addition, two of the babies were diagnosed with twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS), which is uneven blood flow between identical twins sharing a single placenta. Erin Clack, People.com, 17 May 2025 As history and the soap opera tradition of secret evil twins shows, the human mind tends to find something uncanny and disturbing about identical twins. Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times, 4 May 2025 As for Sinners, Coogler’s fifth feature is set in 1932 and stars Jordan in dual roles as identical twin entrepreneurs known as Smoke and Stack. James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 28 Apr. 2025 Its portrayal of identical twins who are polar opposites largely stands apart from the crowd, but like the others, Leaves of Grass taps into the seemingly symbiotic relationship identical twins possess. Barry Levitt, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for identical twin
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Noun
  • In what seems to be the dark mirror image to The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, V.E. Schwab intertwines stories of three different women separated by seas and centuries: María in Santo Domingo de la Calzada (1532), Charlotte in London (1827), and Alice in Boston (2019).
    Natalie Zutter June 2, Literary Hub, 2 June 2025
  • Peering into the closet isn’t important only as a way of exploring the dark mirror image of the liberatory history of coming out.
    Duane Michals Eric Jason Martin Krish Seenivasan Zak Mouton, New York Times, 12 May 2025
Noun
  • The other point came at first doubles where Olivia Romans and Evelyn Esdaile prevailed in three sets.
    Danny Ventura, Boston Herald, 12 June 2025
  • Pros: Lightweight, super versatile; doubles as a day and night cream Cons: The retinol can be irritating for some skin types.
    Deanna Pai, Glamour, 12 June 2025
Noun
  • Users are directed to those duplicates via messaging and social media channels.
    Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 11 May 2025
  • Most of the gems were sent to an Indian museum in Kolkata, according to the Indian government, and a fifth of the total find — consisting of duplicates of the main collection — were retained by Peppé.
    Helen Regan, CNN Money, 6 May 2025
Noun
  • In other words, a party with choices that are not carbon copies of President Donald Trump and his frenetic, often defiant and anti-establishment governing style.
    Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 9 June 2025
  • Complementary Talents That’s not to say that co-founders should be carbon copies of each other.
    Kate Vitasek, Forbes.com, 1 June 2025
Noun
  • The parallel between Harvard and Musk is striking: both have been immensely successful, aided in large part by government funding, favorable regulation, and public goodwill.
    Joel Shulman, Forbes.com, 7 June 2025
  • Mainly, a batch of biting songs and an effortless flow that often operated as the parallel of a world-class rhythm section.
    Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 7 June 2025

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