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Elkin

American  
[el-kin] / ˈɛl kɪn /

noun

  1. Stanley, 1930–1995, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.


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At the funeral directors' trial, the jury was told that Albie was in the care of Elkin and Bell at that time.

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026

Prosecutors said 46 bodies were kept in the uncooled mortuary at Elkin and Bell Funerals in Gosport, Hampshire, in 2022 and 2023.

From BBC • Dec. 12, 2025

“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

“The only principle they care for,” Elkin interposed, “is, ‘To the devil with all principles!’”

From The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia by Cahan, Abraham

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