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 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 At least for Kelly and Matthew Stafford, who sent their twins off to new adventures. — Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 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 London mobster Eddie Richardson, who fought a notorious turf war with the Kray twins before his life took an unexpected turn into art, has died aged 90, the Telegraph reports. — George Nelson, ARTnews.com, 18 Aug. 2026 Bridegan, 33, had just dropped off the twins after taking them and his daughter Bexley to dinner when the ambush unfolded, prosecutors say. — Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 18 Aug. 2026 In a brief hearing at the Payette County Courthouse on Tuesday, an Idaho mother denied killing her 18-month-old twins and had what could be a monthlong murder trial scheduled for January 2027. — Alex Brizee, Idaho Statesman, 18 Aug. 2026 Some of their potential areas of cooperation include AI and digital twins. — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 14 Aug. 2026 The coming-of-age drama opens with 17-year-old twins, Annie Jacobson (Ella Rubin) and her twin brother Connor (Keen Ruffalo), who were raised in New York City and inherit a Canadian island following the death of their estranged grandfather. — Maira Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2026

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Noun

Khn plays a custom double-neck guitar-bass with twice the usual number of frets on each side, looping the two halves together in real time with foot pedals.

— Josh Martin, Rolling Stone, 19 Aug. 2026
Add the lemon halves, cut-sides down, and cook until charred on the bottom, 3 to 4 minutes.

— ABC News, ABC News, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of halves

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Several other curved, slender bones were soon found nearby, according to pictures shared with the station.

— Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026
Zeimetz, coincidentally or not, posted pictures at a Hammond restaurant and at a Joliet Slammers baseball game on those corresponding dates.

— Megan De Mar, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of pictures

Noun

My kids could never get enough of Dinosaur Land, a walk-through theme park with more than 50 life-sized replicas of these beloved prehistoric creatures made out of fiberglass.

— Allison Tibaldi, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026
Outside of this special occasion, the crown is displayed with replicas of the Cullinan III, IV, and V so the real stones can remain in rotation in the royal jewelry box.

— Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of replicas

Noun

Kristinka Lazar, for example, used the time as an artistic residency to create a collection of paintings called The Gift of Being Seen, featuring 45 portraits of local villagers.

— Liz Provencher, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Aug. 2026
Watermelon was founded in 2024 by brothers Badie and Hamza Ali to present more complex portraits of Palestinians and Arabs.

— Brent Lang, IndieWire, 20 Aug. 2026

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