twinning

American  

[twin-ing] / ˈtwɪn ɪŋ /

noun

1. the bearing of two children at one birth.

2. the coupling of two persons or things; union.

3. Crystallography. the union of crystals to form a twin.

4. an act or instance of matching or resembling someone or something in a specific way, and the acknowledgment of this resemblance (often used attributively): I love those twinning outfits.

   accidental twinning;

   I love those twinning outfits.

   Look at their twinning duckfaces.

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Etymology

Origin of twinning

First recorded in 1565–75; twin ¹ + -ing ¹

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Example Sentences

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twinning

But all those efforts at twinning are a bit futile.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

Andy Burnham said Manchester has a twinning arrangement with Wuhan, which was the epicentre of the Covid pandemic.

From BBC ● Nov. 27, 2023

Because two to three weeks after conception, twinning might occur.

From Washington Post ● May 18, 2022

Jessica Beck, a curator at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, came up with the idea of twinning the artists as a way of reintroducing Marisol and showing the overlap of ideas and influence.

From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2022

His spirit, depleted by his own depredations, pulsed too fast through his veins, twinning with a whirr and discordant jangle of...of disbelief crashing against evidence, producing a sensation of disfaith.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

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