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  • proper noun The two main buildings of the World Trade Center, destroyed in terrorist attacks on 9/11, 2001.

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Examples

  • The Twin Towers is a perfect name for the place Paris will be spending this weekend.

    SIZZLER: Your SchadenFriday Round-Up! | Best Week Ever 2007

  • Hunkered down deep inside enemy territory, and then all at once they spring out of nowhere and knock down the Twin Towers?

    Freedom Fighter Greg Davis 2011

  • One recent letter insisted that Osama bin Laden was not behind the 2001 attacks, that an Israeli firm in the Twin Towers "received a fax warning them about the 911 attack that would come in a few hours" which presumably allowed it to warn Israelis and/or Jews to evacuate the building, and that it was not a plane that struck the Pentagon on that fateful day.

    John Feffer: Bunkum and Debunk 'Em John Feffer 2011

  • One recent letter insisted that Osama bin Laden was not behind the 2001 attacks, that an Israeli firm in the Twin Towers "received a fax warning them about the 911 attack that would come in a few hours" which presumably allowed it to warn Israelis and/or Jews to evacuate the building, and that it was not a plane that struck the Pentagon on that fateful day.

    John Feffer: Bunkum and Debunk 'Em John Feffer 2011

  • But after the Twin Towers fell, the apprentice found himself challenging his mentor.

    Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011

  • And when the Twin Towers fell 10 years ago this week, there was plenty of glee in Arab lands—a sense of wonder, bordering on pride, that a band of young Arabs had brought soot and ruin onto American soil.

    From 9/11 to the Arab Spring Fouad Ajami 2011

  • No, what was so bizarre was the systemic loss of the Twin Towers throughout pop culture.

    Kris LoPresto: Never Forgotten: Rescue Me and Fringe Kept the Twin Towers on our Small Screens Kris LoPresto 2011

  • Hunkered down deep inside enemy territory, and then all at once they spring out of nowhere and knock down the Twin Towers?

    Freedom Fighter Greg Davis 2011

  • No, what was so bizarre was the systemic loss of the Twin Towers throughout pop culture.

    Kris LoPresto: Never Forgotten: Rescue Me and Fringe Kept the Twin Towers on our Small Screens Kris LoPresto 2011

  • It was the afternoon of September 11th, 2001, the streets were deserted and an eerie haze of smoke coming from the burning Twin Towers in lower Manhattan covered the whole city of New York.

    Mara Gibbs: Everybody Eats Where? In New York, Sant Ambroeus Madison Mara Gibbs 2011

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