in pairs
idiom
: in a group of two people or things
working in pairs on an assignment
walking down the aisle in pairs
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Together, the two won a 1994 world championship in pairs figure skating.
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Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 31 Jan. 2025
From the beach here, the view is extraordinary — those planes, flying in pairs, skim the Pacific Ocean filling tanks in their bellies and then fly directly over the Santa Monica Mountains to douse flames.
—Kirk Siegler, NPR, 12 Jan. 2025
The husband and wife duo won the world championships in pairs skating in 1994 and reportedly lived in the U.S. since at least 1998.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 30 Jan. 2025
In the Trapezium cluster, in the heart of the Orion nebula some 1400 light-years away, McCaughrean and Pearson noticed 42 brown dwarfs orbiting in pairs, a few of them nearly as light as Jupiter.
—Byadam Mann, science.org, 6 Nov. 2024
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“In pairs.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in%20pairs. Accessed 2 Mar. 2025.
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