Maddie Marlow

I'd love for us to be on our way to having a career like Reba McEntire or Shania Twain; to be Entertainer of the Year, to have headlined big tours, and really be women when we're doing it.

American Musician

Mo Rocca

No, no, no separate but equal... never the twain shall meet. And the pendulum kept swinging and it came to rest in the bastard hybrid known as the Daily Show.

American Writer

Joe R. Lansdale

Twain is my keystone. He reminds me of my people because that's the way they told stories.

Pontius Pilate

Whether will the twain will ye that I release unto you?

Roman Politician

Used mainly in literature to add a classical or historical flair.

Literary Use

Modern English typically uses 'two' instead of 'twain' in everyday conversation.

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Using 'twain' can evoke a sense of drama or emphasize a separation.

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 the pain in your phantom hand almost as though the neuron were obtaining relief for merely watching somebody else being massaged so here you have my last slide for the longest time people have regarded science and Humanities as being distinct see peace know spoke of the two cultures science in the one hand humanities on the other never the twain

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 For the longest time people have regarded science and humanities as being distinct. C.P. Snow spoke of the two science on the one hand, humanities on the other; never the twain shall meet. So, I'm saying the mirror neuron system underlies the interface

Twain

An old-fashioned term meaning two of anything.

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