twins

noun

plural of twin
1
as in halves
either of a pair matched in one or more qualities I've found one sock but can't find its twin

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2
as in pictures
something or someone that strongly resembles another some of these people who think that they're a given movie star's twin are kidding themselves

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Recent Examples of twins The search for Earth twins Since the 1990s, scientists have cataloged more than 6,300 worlds orbiting stars other than our sun. — Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2026 While chatting with the actor, 72, about his new documentary Water Wars, Quaid also opens up to PEOPLE about his 18-year-old twins, Thomas and Zoe, leaving for college, marking a major new chapter for the proud dad. — Lily Brown, PEOPLE, 27 Aug. 2026 To help retailers and brands navigate the technology, AWS (Amazon Web Services) offers a guide for how to use digital twins and its benefits. — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 27 Aug. 2026 On a recent day, Ramadhan’s oldest child, not even 3, kissed the twins on the cheeks and recognized a photo of their mother. — ABC News, 26 Aug. 2026 Imperial Business School has already created digital twins of professors, while Georgia Tech has deployed AI teaching assistant Jill Watson across large online classes. — Mia Osmonbekov, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2026 The musician was the fourth oldest of six brothers and six sisters, including a set of twins. — Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026 Women carrying twins or more babies at once also had substantially higher rates than those carrying one baby. — Faye Chiu, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026 Pittsburgh Penguins The post-Sidney Crosby era will be a massive adjustment, but the Penguins’ farm system is all of a sudden quite strong, led by names like Rutger McGroarty, Ben Kindel and the Ruck twins. — Corey Pronman, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for twins
  1. halves
  2. pictures
  3. images
  4. replicas
  5. clones
  6. portraits
Noun
  • New research into the interior of Mars further emphasizes that the Red Planet is a world of two very different halves.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 31 Aug. 2026
  • The streamer later stepped in and ordered a fourth and final season, which played out in two 10-episode halves in 2022 and 2023.
    — Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of halves
Noun
  • Starting in the 1930s, as talking pictures and then radio and TV supplanted theater as the prime form of mass entertainment, some were converted to cinemas.
    — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 3 Sep. 2026
  • And, apparently, the eerie pictures are turning people's stomachs.
    — Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of pictures
Noun
  • The trove of women’s bloomers, drawers, knickers, brassieres, corsets, and girdles is just a small part of the school’s historic clothing collection, with images shared by the University of Wyoming Libraries via JSTOR.
    — April White, JSTOR Daily, 2 Sep. 2026
  • Her paintings, like her images, feel like moving through a fog made of glass and wood, chaos and restraint, Lilith in a Victorian steel mill.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of images
Noun
  • Today, replicas of various degrees of accuracy are readily available.
    — David Szondy August 30, New Atlas, 30 Aug. 2026
  • Additionally, studios need to pay residuals to digital replicas used in reruns, and replicas cannot be used during a strike.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of replicas
Noun
  • Still, stories of artists finding unauthorized clones have become all too common.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2026
  • The school is now putting AI versions of its faculty to work in a $699 online startup bootcamp, where aspiring founders can rehearse investor pitches, sales calls, and board meetings—all with AI clones of Harvard instructors.
    — Mia Osmonbekov, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of clones
Noun
  • In portraits in homes and classrooms, in daily photographs on the front page of the country’s main party newspaper, on the lapel badges that citizens had pinned over their hearts, Kim’s image was the very iconography of the state.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2026
  • After two decades in commercial property and about two years of drawing bad dog portraits, Heckels quit his job and started drawing portraits nearly every day instead.
    — Maddie Rhodes, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of portraits

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“Twins.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/twins. Accessed 5 Sep. 2026.

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