identical twins

noun

plural of identical twin
as in doubles

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for identical twins
  1. doubles
  2. equivalents
  3. duplicates
  4. mirror images
  5. equals
  6. carbon copies
  7. peers
  8. similarities
Noun
  • On Tuesday evening, Serena Williams and Carlos Alcaraz had just finished playing mixed doubles in Ashe as more fans were lining up to enter and see Federer.
    — Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 28 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 doubles
Noun
  • OpenRouter's Justin Summerville told the network that open Chinese models can run 60% to 90% cheaper than the leading Anthropic and OpenAI equivalents.
    — Janakiram MSV, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2026
  • His buyback calculation is based on a regulatory filing Berkshire made in July tied to Chairman Warren Buffett’s charitable stock donation, which disclosed his economic ownership of the company’s Class A share equivalents.
    — Yun Li, CNBC, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of equivalents
Noun
  • Objectors also allege some petition sheets were copies, duplicates or did not apply to the specified referendum.
    — Addison Wright, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2026
  • New features include Automated Bank-Reconciliation that allows JAX to identify unreconciled transactions, duplicates, missing documents and anomalies, then help resolve them while updating the books in real time.
    — Gene Marks, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of duplicates
Noun
  • The narrator spends years assembling the truth of this death, concealed by his family, and discovers that Calcutta and Dhaka experienced those riots as mirror images of each other.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 July 2026
  • Foreign Tongues was built around leftover material from the Hackney Diamonds sessions, and the two albums are such mirror images of one another that they may as well have been released together, Use Your Illusion-style.
    — Stuart Berman, Pitchfork, 13 July 2026
Definition of mirror images
Noun
  • Men are supposed to pay for dinner but also treat women as equals; to initiate flirty banter but never be creepy or aggressive; to be sturdy and masculine but also empathetic and thoughtful.
    — Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2026
  • This is a partnership of equals—not in the size of our populations, but in the depth of our commitments.
    — Naftali Bennett, Time, 9 July 2026
Definition of equals
Noun
  • The matches — admittedly played in much less friendly environments than Monday – were almost carbon copies of the Americans’ loss to Belgium.
    — Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
  • Their second and third goals were almost carbon copies, too.
    — Carl Anka, New York Times, 20 June 2026
Definition of carbon copies
Noun
  • Trout and Neto reached out to an unnamed Rams player on Tuesday to gather intel on their new owner, who has a sterling reputation amongst his NFL peers.
    — Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2026
  • Mice on semaglutide explored more, balanced longer on a rotating rod, ran farther on a treadmill and solved a maze faster—gains that held even after the researchers accounted for the animals just being leaner than their peers.
    — Jacek Krywko, Scientific American, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of peers
Noun
  • In those early conversations, Fernandez talked through a system that bore significant similarities to what Bueckers ran at UConn.
    — Brian Hamilton, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Brunicki said that while there were some similarities with the dot‑com era, the underlying businesses of AI companies look different.
    — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of similarities
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“Identical twins.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/identical%20twins. Accessed 3 Sep. 2026.

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