adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
identical twin
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
almost
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They were almost identical , yet they looked different.
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George Magnus's forecast is almost identical .
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But while axeheads from different societies may perform widely differing social functions, the axeheads themselves may be almost identical .
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Sometimes Saccani speeds up where Dorati slows down, other times their tempos are almost identical .
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Pollen was an almost identical diet and it still remains a most important prize.
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Nixon had advocated an almost identical program in the 1960 campaign.
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Another almost identical box, with attached headphones, was moved over the ground and a continual tone was emitted.
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Although built by Brush instead of Milnes, the bodies of these cars were almost identical to those of Corporation Nos. 46-55.
essentially
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The coverage of these chapters is essentially identical to the general instrumental analysis texts listed at the back of the chapters.
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It did not produce new concepts or frameworks, although it did prevent unneeded competition among essentially identical approaches bearing different names.
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Both peptides have essentially identical biological activities.
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I found the Honda and Toyota management principles essentially identical .
genetically
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That is because commercial grapevines are propagated from cuttings and are genetically identical clones.
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The influence of heredity is best studied in genetically identical twins.
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Megan and Morag in a sense are genetically identical twins, but their significance is greater than that.
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Megan and Morag are simply the two survivors from a much larger, genetically identical group.
nearly
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Their known, nearly identical faces, slid by in a wave of tawdry dinner jackets, sequinned old lace.
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Consumer groups have complained that the existing two-company system has led to nearly identical prices and plans.
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The mean proliferation indices within compartments were nearly identical for both assays.
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The men and women appeared androgynous, with similar short haircuts and nearly identical loose-fitting clothing.
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With a glue like casein the various effects cancel out so that the wet and dry strength of practical joints are nearly identical .
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I landed between two women in their sixties with nearly identical hairdos.
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It was produced by Scott McCarron and Bruce Lietzke, two guys who use nearly identical putters that look like garden rakes.
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Mavis had her eye on two older men, the Arsenault brothers, nearly identical in height and build-were they twins?
virtually
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It was just that they were all in profile and virtually identical .
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Its atomic properties turned out to be virtually identical with the Murmansk uranium.
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Unless Labour develops its policies the next election will be a battle between two parties with virtually identical economic policies.
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The prices of forward exchange and futures contract are virtually identical once contracts have same maturity dates. 8.
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However for AEs the figures were virtually identical with those of standard entrants. 2% more SEs gained good degrees than NSEs.
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On Northumbrian moors the red grouse and the black grouse live in virtually identical habitats.
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However the proportions of SEs and NSEs gaining upper seconds were virtually identical at 28% and 27.9% respectively.
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The story of the Enewetak islanders is virtually identical .
■ NOUN
twin
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Surprisingly, identical twins rarely arise from the separation into two cells at the two-cell stage.
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Even identical twins raised in the same home can not be assumed to have had the same experiences.
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Seeing double - identical twins , Georgina and Rachel Spruce 20, from Walsall.
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But how do these studies explain identical twins who are not identical for alcoholism?
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Incidentally, what is the concordance in schizophrenia in identical twins ?
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Do identical twins , who are after all clones, share a soul?
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But this study has, for the first time, clearly demonstrated a genetic difference between concordant and discordant identical twins .
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If one identical twin is gay, the chances that his brother is also gay are 50 percent.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The picture is identical to the one in the museum of Modern Art in New York.
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The tablets were identical in size, shape, and colour.
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three identical statues
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To me the two patterns looked identical .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Consumer groups have complained that the existing two-company system has led to nearly identical prices and plans.
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I believe the Druid sacred groves to have been functionally identical with, and a direct continuity of, ley mark-clumps.
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It is a striking feature of quantum mechanics, however, that for identical particles the rules are different.
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Obviously, all the team kites should be of identical design for aesthetic and performance reasons.
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On two grounds, then, humans are identical to the world; for this we have both cosmological and anthropological data.
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The number of seconds that have passed since your births remains identical .
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Twins, being of identical ages, are usually even better matched on environmental variables during upbringing than are siblings.