TWINS Synonyms: 47 Similar and Opposite Words

twins

noun

plural of twin

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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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 Harris pointed to Harris and Gill’s healthy older child, who was also living in the home, as evidence that something else was going on with the twins. — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 22 Oct. 2026 The pathologists who examined the twins also said their causes of death were undetermined, Filicetti said. — CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026 The following year, the channel produced a follow-up special featuring the parents, twins, and sextuplets, and three months later, a regular series started shooting. — Isabella Albaig, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2026 The show documented the Gosselin family, which included sextuplets and twins. — William Earl, Variety, 21 Oct. 2026 This past year, the duo of Mexican American twins have gotten support and a big push from Fuerza Regida frontman Jesús Ortiz Paz. — Lucas Villa, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2026 The twins, Dallas, a girl, and Tyson, a boy, were 18 months old. — Sally Krutzig, Idaho Statesman, 20 Oct. 2026 The couple first welcomed twins, Conor and Josie, but their daughter tragically died days after her birth. — Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2026 The truth is, Stuttgart has had great success with pretty much every kind of configuration; the midship supercars are just the least common (the Boxster/Cayman twins are superb, but not quite super). — Caleb Jacobs, The Drive, 15 Oct. 2026

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Noun

Roast halves cut side down rather than boiling them, since roasting concentrates the sugars and cuts moisture.

— Lauren Schuster, Sacbee.com, 21 Oct. 2026
The exhibition, which opened Sunday in East Hollywood, aims to unify both halves of his work.

— Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026

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Gacy painted over a thousand pictures, many of clowns, while on death row in the 1980s and 1990s.

— Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 28 Oct. 2026
To my eye, the differences between the 17 Pro and Duo in good lighting were minimal, but the Duo did capture marginally better detail in low light (see the cat pictures).

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of pictures

Noun

Rights, approvals and protections for digital replicas, voice, likeness and content now have to be addressed up front, not as an afterthought.

— Claudia Rosenbaum, HollywoodReporter, 21 Oct. 2026
In honor of the nation’s 250th anniversary, researchers at Penn State University have modeled its acoustic properties, drawing on data collected from one of the bell’s replicas.

— Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of replicas

Noun

Since its earliest days, the video game industry has been built on developers creating clones of competing games, with varying levels of originality and varying levels of enforcement from game platforms.

— Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 19 Oct. 2026
In other words, the researchers were able to produce both male and female clones from the same donor male.

— Gennaro Tomma, Scientific American, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of clones

Noun

They were never intended to be used on paintings, where two portraits of the same sitter may have major differences in style and technique.

— Karen Chernick, ARTnews.com, 21 Oct. 2026
Punk icon Martin Sorrondeguy of Los Crudos shot portraits of Twisted Teens in Chicago this summer.

— Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 21 Oct. 2026

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