Akil
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Art movie nights in the Cinema Akil, set amid galleries in a converted industrial zone.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026
The show’s creator, Mara Brock Akil, who’d gotten her start writing on shows like “South Central,” “Moesha” and “The Jamie Foxx Show,” was tired of seeing out-of-touch depictions of Black women on screen.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 27, 2025
Akil continues down the road that Blume's 1975 novel forded, accurately capturing adolescence's hidden longing and confusion.
From Salon • May 21, 2025
Saturday’s explosion at the Palm Springs fertility clinic was many times larger, according to Akil Davis, the assistant director in charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2025
Again I tried the old scheme of forcing him to leave me, and even begged an Akil of the Dulbahantas, offering him large rewards, to be my guide to Berbera.
From What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile by Speke, John Hanning
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