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Recent Examples of identical twin
The study's results, published in the journal Cell Reports, showed that 16 of the 32 pairs received scores identical twins would receive.
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David Faris, Newsweek, 18 Jan. 2025
For example, an individual male mouse might just so happen to win a fight with its identical twin over food.
—Jonathan Lambert, NPR, 8 Jan. 2025
To identify him, authorities followed an unusual trail of clues that ended with one detective recognizing the suspect as the identical twin of someone involved in a case three years ago.
—Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2024
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After the unexpected death of their father, identical twins Holland and Niles are left to roam their family’s New England farmland as their mother grieves alone.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 13 Oct. 2024
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David Faris, Newsweek, 18 Jan. 2025
For example, an individual male mouse might just so happen to win a fight with its identical twin over food.
—Jonathan Lambert, NPR, 8 Jan. 2025
To identify him, authorities followed an unusual trail of clues that ended with one detective recognizing the suspect as the identical twin of someone involved in a case three years ago.
—Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2024
Buy Now 15 of 15 ‘The Other’ by Thomas Tyron
After the unexpected death of their father, identical twins Holland and Niles are left to roam their family’s New England farmland as their mother grieves alone.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 13 Oct. 2024
See all Example Sentences for identical twin
Recent Examples of Synonyms for identical twin
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But the odds of RFK Jr.’s defeat are shrinking, and Cassidy’s thumbs-up may one day be remembered as the mirror image of John McCain’s thumbs-down from 2017, when that independent-minded senator doomed Trump’s efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act.—
Nicholas Florko,
The Atlantic,
4 Feb. 2025
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Harris then appeared as the mirror image of Rudolph to offer advice.—
Mary Spicuzza,
Journal Sentinel,
3 Nov. 2024
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With an elite attack consisting of Kylian Mbappe, Vinicius Junior, Jude Bellingham and Rodrygo, big things were expected of Real Madrid again this season following their 2023-24 double of La Liga and Champions League titles.—
Thom Harris,
The Athletic,
8 Feb. 2025
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From there, the show spun outward, presenting a whole cast of shadowy doubles and mysteriously cosmic back doors—during which distance grew between us, the confused audience, and Laura’s death, which had kicked off the entire franchise.—
K. Austin Collins,
The Atlantic,
7 Feb. 2025
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The evacuation warnings turned out to be duplicates of the flawed Kenneth Fire alerts sent the day before.—
Holly Yan,
CNN,
16 Jan. 2025
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Remove errors, duplicates and irrelevant information from the collected data.—
Sandro Shubladze,
Forbes,
3 Dec. 2024
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These sketches of humanity’s future are not carbon copies of each other, either.—
Dylan Scott,
Vox,
5 Feb. 2025
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The pups were carbon copies of their parents, although most people in the comment section thought the husky genes took over.—
Liz O'Connell,
Newsweek,
10 Jan. 2025
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But conversely, up north across the 49th parallel, Trump’s actions have created some solidarity at a time when Trudeau’s Liberal Party has been on the rocks, and it’s felt like only a matter of time before the Conservative Party, led by a quasi-Trumpian Pierre Polievre, would mount a victory.—
Talib Visram,
TIME,
7 Feb. 2025
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However, a deeper look reveals many parallels between the sport of football and the game of life.—
Contributed Content,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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