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Akil

American  
[ah-keel] / ɑˈkil /

noun

  1. a first name: from an Arabic word meaning “one who uses reason.”


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“It all shows on-screen and helps people understand the characters,” Brock Akil said.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2026

Inside a Sunset Gower Studios soundstage in Hollywood, Mara Brock Akil, the creator behind the Netflix series “Forever,” recently gave Bajaria a tour of the set.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2026

Search funds typically only back someone with an M.B.A. or similar pedigree, something Bakari Akil soon learned.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

Then Akil read a Harvard Business School case study that described how M.B.A. graduates were running around the country trying to buy companies with money from something called a search fund.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

Two of the embassy, one of them being Akil or Abd-ul-Masih, the chief of the deputation, adopted Islam.

From A Critical Exposition of the Popular 'Jihád' Showing that all the Wars of Mohammad Were Defensive; and that Aggressive War, or Compulsory Conversion, is not Allowed in The Koran - 1885 by Cherágh Ali

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