twinning
Americannoun
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the bearing of two children at one birth.
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the coupling of two persons or things; union.
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Crystallography. the union of crystals to form a twin.
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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.
Etymology
Origin of twinning
Example Sentences
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But all those efforts at twinning are a bit futile.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
Curiously enough, the village is not the only one in the Scottish Borders to boast a "twinning" with a fictional movie location either.
From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2023
There’s a case to be made for the twinning of these events.
From Washington Post ● May 19, 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
On the refrains her voice spun, twinning and mixing with my own.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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