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Discover LudwigThe phrase "dark twin" is correct and can be used in written English
It is typically used to describe a counterpart or mirror image of someone who has a darker or more sinister side. Example: As the protagonist entered the abandoned mansion, he couldn't shake the feeling that someone, or something, was watching him. Little did he know, his dark twin, who had been lurking in the shadows, was waiting for the perfect opportunity to strike.
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Maybe it is love's dark twin.
One thing that turns sound into its dark twin, noise, is a sense of imposed helplessness.
This, too, had happened in Mexico — Tijuana, San Diego's dark twin, the news drifting up to the States on a Sunday afternoon.
In the Russian culture, this triumphant Chechen assumes the place of the Other, a Russian's persistent dark twin, vacated by the departed Jew.
What mattered was vanquishing the myth's dark twin, the humiliating "terror-dream" that 9/11 had forced to the surface of national consciousness.
In the same way, dysthymia, hypomania's dark twin, has often been confused with gloomy temperament, when in fact it is a treatable form of low-grade depression.
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At Fermilab, scientists will explore applications and theory behind quantum computing, particularly for use in particle physics and accelerators, and use superconducting qubits to search for two other hypothetical particles proposed as explanations for dark matter: axions, extremely tiny particles with no spin, and dark photons, the dark "twins" of regular light particles.
The city has always been San Francisco's darker twin, brooding on the opposite side of the bay.
The possibility of such an intervention must number, along with its darker twin of going back and killing Hitler, among the principal fantasies of time travel, and is explored in the 54th work of fiction by Stephen King.
Claudia Steiner could be Bridget Jones's darker twin: struggling to pay the rent on her studio apartment by toiling as a ghostwriter to an insane Park Avenue socialite, she can't keep from crawling through some of the city's meaner streets.
Marooned in a vast Manhattan apartment with his mother Claire, a publisher grappling with a family history of mental illness, Luke blocks Daniel out for years through anti-psychotic drugs, yet his darker twin returns when Luke leaves home and begins college.
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