identical twin

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Recent Examples of identical twin The $175 million arena project is spearheaded by Joshua Wood — a Rancho Cordova resident who advocated for subsidies to build Golden 1 Center, and identical twin brother of Sacramento State President Luke Wood — and his business partner, Charanjeet Kaur Tiwana-Purewal. JosÉ Luis Villegas, Sacbee.com, 6 Jan. 2026 Elvis was actually born 35 minutes after his identical twin brother, Jesse Garon. Bob Mehr, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 6 Jan. 2026 In late summer 2025, the pair welcomed identical twin boys. Katie Mannion, PEOPLE, 28 Dec. 2025 She’s joined by Devin McCourty, a three-time Super Bowl champion and prolific identical twin. Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for identical twin
Recent Examples of Synonyms for identical twin
Noun
  • Antimatter is like the mirror image of matter.
    Emma Gometz, Scientific American, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Indeed, in many ways, West’s performatively anti-white, unpatriotic, and cosmopolitan version of polyamory is the blue-state mirror image of tradwifery, which, in its various forms, can fetishize whiteness, nostalgic Americana, and (often Christian) nationalism.
    Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 18 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The Guardians led 1-0 on Steven Kwan's RBI double in the right field corner off Roki Sasaki, the first of three consecutive Japanese starters scheduled for the Dodgers in the series.
    CBS News, CBS News, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The inning included two-run doubles by Willi Castro and Ezequiel Tovar.
    Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 31 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Some were duplicates, so the final tally was 15.
    Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Software engineer Alexey Grigorev recently watched an AI agent destroy his entire production database—wiping out years of course data after a setup error caused the system to delete the live environment instead of cleaning up duplicates.
    Alexei Oreskovic, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Rock stars and their equivalents in other genres often develop their craft in obscurity before being discovered; idols are apprentices, trained exhaustively by their management companies.
    Mitch Therieau, New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Short-term money market funds and cash equivalents can offer places to hide from the volatility.
    John Towfighi, CNN Money, 26 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • At the 2025 Venice Film Festival Julia Roberts and Amanda Seyfried wore carbon copy looks from Versace’s then creative director Dario Vitale, offering a would-be sneak peek at the incoming designer’s debut collection.
    Alexandra Hildreth, Vogue, 26 Mar. 2026
  • But the field itself will not be a carbon copy of where these Class A players hope to eventually play.
    Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 16 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The new restrictions on the airport would prevent two planes from landing in parallel on the airport’s longer east-west runways, reducing the number of flights that are able to land per hour.
    Danielle Echeverria, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Apr. 2026
  • In parallel, the Advertising & Experiences team has delivered high-profile luxury campaigns for brands including Yves Saint Laurent, Chanel, and Hermès.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 2 Apr. 2026

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“Identical twin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/identical%20twin. Accessed 4 Apr. 2026.

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