Elkin
Americannoun
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Elkin told police the cremation had not taken place because they had not received payment but, in fact, they had been paid in full, prosecutors said.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2026
French-American author Lauren Elkin, who writes on art and culture, said a mythology pervaded that she was "this reclusive spinster that never left her house and lived at home with her cat making her paintings".
From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2026
“You have 15 to 20 minutes until the oxygen supply to the baby stops and the baby dies or suffers brain damage,” said Dr. Aaron Elkin, a Florida obstetrician.
From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2024
Elkin is now a professor of chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Delaney a professor of chemistry at the University of Texas at Dallas.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 8, 2024
Elkin had said there was not enough of them to make one decent-sized eye, and dubbed him “Cyclops,” which had since been the boy’s revolutionary nickname.
From The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia by Abraham Cahan
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