identical twin

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Recent Examples of identical twin And 20 months after that, my identical twin daughters, Ryan and Reese, arrived—healthy and full-term. Tracey Harrington McCoy, Parents, 6 Mar. 2025 Among identical twins who share 100% of their genes, one twin has a roughly 25% chance of developing MS if the other twin has the disease. Ashutosh Mangalam, The Conversation, 3 Mar. 2025 Tal, 38, and Oren Alexander, 37, two prominent jet-setting real estate brokers in New York and Miami, and their brother Alon Alexander, Oren's identical twin, were arrested in Miami Beach on Dec. 11 and remain in federal custody in New York. Mollie Markowitz, Fox News, 23 Feb. 2025 Tal, 38, and Oren Alexander, 37, two prominent jet-setting brokers in New York and Miami, and their brother Alon Alexander, Oren's identical twin, were arrested in Miami Beach on Wednesday, Dec. 11 and have since been taken into federal custody. Mollie Markowitz, Fox News, 8 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for identical twin
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Noun
  • Each veneer leaf is sliced from premium timber before being precisely joined to provide a mirror image of the wood grain across two speakers.
    Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025
  • This is ridiculous and counterproductive — not to mention a mirror image of the regrettable intimidation tactics that the GOP denounced when used by Democrats.
    Editorial, Boston Herald, 20 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Campbell, who rose from High-A to Triple-A last season and made his major league debut on Opening Day, collected his second double of the series and scored Boston’s other run.
    Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 30 Mar. 2025
  • When the Giants tagged Martinez for three runs in the sixth on Jung Hoo Lee’s RBI double and Chapman’s two-run homer, his first of the year, the Giants looked positioned to cruise.
    Justice delos Santos, Mercury News, 30 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Clones are as much a sci-fi staple as robots, spaceships, and time travel, with every major franchise dabbling with duplicates somewhere down the line.
    Richard Edwards, Space.com, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Fans painstakingly catalogue their collections, trade duplicates, and share creative DIY modifications.
    Kate Hardcastle, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The granular details will be like a carbon copy of the personal data engine has learned on your previous S25.
    Ewan Spence, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
  • The fresh email wasn't a carbon copy of the first, sent roughly a week ago.
    Will McCurdy, PCMAG, 2 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Elson is quick to draw a parallel between White’s other creative pursuits—whether making ceramics at college, or playing bass with her dad on his recent No Name tour—and her nascent interest in modeling.
    Liam Hess, Vogue, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Bridgers suggests that could be because other cognitive skills develop in parallel in early childhood.
    Charlotte Hu, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2025

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