Elena
Americannoun
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Justices Samuel Alito and Elena Kagan, the two who opted out of the main opinion, say in a concurrence that they’d prefer a narrow ruling for Mr. Hemani with less verbiage.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 18, 2026
Twelve months later, she reached another Melbourne final - and a flurry of mistakes saw her squander a break lead in the deciding set against Elena Rybakina.
From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026
When asked what she felt on Victory Day, which marks the Soviet Union's defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, 36-year-old economist Elena replied: "Nothing."
From Barron's • May 9, 2026
Biology Ph.D. student Tim Curtis Jr. participated in the work in Currie's lab, along with undergraduate Elena Singer-Freeman, a Goldwater Scholar and 2025 Wake Forest graduate in biochemistry and molecular biology.
From Science Daily • May 9, 2026
Elena and Miles are really competitive, and the rest of us have to keep shushing them when they get too loud, so nobody upstairs hears us.
From "A Soft Place to Land" by Janae Marks
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