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Recent Examples of identical twin
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.
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Barry Levitt, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2025
Bailey and Mason, among others, authored the NASA Twins Study, which followed identical twin astronauts, one of whom spent a year on the ISS and the other on Earth.
—Discover Magazine, 18 Apr. 2025
Richard had been discharged from the US Coast Guard after being diagnosed with end-stage kidney disease, and his identical twin brother, Ronald, was a willing donor.
—Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Money, 16 May 2025
Against Kate’s wishes, Joe plots to kidnap Reagan but mistakenly abducts her identical twin, Maddie, instead.
—Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
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Barry Levitt, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2025
Bailey and Mason, among others, authored the NASA Twins Study, which followed identical twin astronauts, one of whom spent a year on the ISS and the other on Earth.
—Discover Magazine, 18 Apr. 2025
Richard had been discharged from the US Coast Guard after being diagnosed with end-stage kidney disease, and his identical twin brother, Ronald, was a willing donor.
—Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN Money, 16 May 2025
Against Kate’s wishes, Joe plots to kidnap Reagan but mistakenly abducts her identical twin, Maddie, instead.
—Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for identical twin
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Following Florida’s 4-1 dispatch of rival Tampa Bay in the first round and seven games to end Toronto’s season, the East finals presents its own dynamic, because the Panthers and Hurricanes are mirror images in terms of defense-first mindsets.—
Greg Cote,
Miami Herald,
21 May 2025
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Now jump ahead to last year, when the right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson provided a mirror image of Yeltsin’s supermarket visit, only this time the supermarket was in Moscow.—
Eric Jason Martin Tanya Pérez Ted Blaisdell,
New York Times,
12 Apr. 2025
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Larkin 13, Elgin 5 Larkin (13-15, 9-8 Upstate Eight): Kenya Ventura 3-for-4, 2 doubles, 5 RBIs.—
Josh Krockey,
Chicago Tribune,
20 May 2025
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But a bogey at 16 and a disastrous double at the difficult 17th have the reigning U.S. Open champ six behind Scheffler with one day to go.—
Justin Ray,
New York Times,
18 May 2025
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Biotech ingredients are nature-identical, genetic duplicates of the real thing.—
Joshua Britton,
Time,
2 Apr. 2025
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The baby that results from that is an exact genetic duplicate of the original donor animal.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
7 Apr. 2025
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The first of the goals ruled out at Spurs was almost a carbon copy of Eberechi Eze’s opener at the Etihad.—
Matt Woosnam,
New York Times,
12 May 2025
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In fact, from an offensive perspective, 2022 and 2023 were nearly carbon copies of each other: 2022: 136 games, 22 home runs, 64 RBI 2023: 135 games, 18 home runs, 65 RBI Unfortunately, since 2022, all of Correa’s defensive metrics have fallen off.—
Dan Freedman,
Forbes.com,
2 Apr. 2025
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Due to all things digital, India has the transformative opportunity to encourage internal consumption in parallel with seeking export markets.—
Robert C. Wolcott,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2025
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How Washington manages these parallel crises will be critical for its global standing and security strategy.—
Amir Daftari,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 May 2025
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“Identical twin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/identical%20twin. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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