identical twin

noun

Definition of identical twinnext
as in mirror image

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Recent Examples of identical twin When my identical twin sons were small, almost nobody used their names. — Staff Author, Parents, 13 June 2026 Sitting in the dark press junket room surrounded by cameras and television screens, the brothers Wayans bounce jokes off each other and finish each other’s sentences like identical twins. — Datwon Thomas, VIBE.com, 6 June 2026 Willis and Penn played the love interests of Aniston and Kudrow, respectively; however, the Oscar winner technically was the fiancé of Phoebe's identical twin sister, Ursula, in season 8. — Kathleen Perricone, Entertainment Weekly, 3 June 2026 Green was born at just 27 weeks alongside her identical twin sister Amy at Hillcrest Hospital in 1982. — Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 2 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for identical twin
Recent Examples of Synonyms for identical twin
  1. mirror image
  2. double
  3. duplicate
  4. equivalent
  5. carbon copy
  6. parallel
Noun
  • Jen Kim, a company representative, scanned a visitor's face three times, divided it into six regions and measured the volume of each against its mirror image.
    — Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026
  • Indeed, Falwell and other Moral Majority stalwarts framed their efforts as a mirror image of the left’s own playbook from the 1960s and ’70s.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of mirror image
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  • Tommy White hit an RBI double with two outs in the sixth and Donovan Walton added a run-scoring single, extending the lead to 4-0.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Angels lose to Guardians in extra innings José Ramírez drove in five runs with three doubles, Steven Kwan had five singles and the streaking Cleveland Guardians overcame an early five-run deficit to beat the Angels 8-6 in 10 innings Tuesday night.
    — Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of double
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  • Application streamlining, like preventing duplicates and simplifying the online system, may also help.
    — Adam S. Minsky, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2026
  • While the original 29 code talkers who created the unbreakable code received Congressional Gold Medals, subsequent Code Talker graduates received the silver duplicate.
    — Debra Utacia Krol, AZCentral.com, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of duplicate
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  • Diskin, Easo, Radhakrishnan, Sudakov, and Tassion were trying to work out something fundamental about how graphs — networks of points connected by lines, or edges — can be taken over by large connected areas, the equivalent of pools of fluid.
    — Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 31 Aug. 2026
  • California Cruise is close to the European equivalent of the Tourer 4Motion camper van Volkswagen already announced for the US market.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of equivalent
Noun
  • Humidity remains low for Tuesday, an almost carbon copy of Monday's forecast.
    — Rachael Jay, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026
  • In 2007, an Israeli airstrike destroyed Syria’s covert Al-Kibar facility—a plutonium-producing reactor built by North Korea that was a carbon copy of its 5-megawatt reactor at Yongbyon.
    — Charlie Campbell, Time, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of carbon copy
Noun
  • The history of computer science suggests a more nuanced interplay between the profound and the practical, one that also has parallels in other disciplines.
    — Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Called convergent binocular stereo (CBS), it is designed for robotic heads whose two cameras can point toward the same location instead of remaining parallel.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of parallel

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“Identical twin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/identical%20twin. Accessed 1 Sep. 2026.

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