Perkin
noun
Sir William Henry, 1838–1907, English chemist.
Perkin
American
[pur-kin]
/ ˈpɜr kɪn /
noun
perkin
British
/ ˈpɜːkɪn /
noun
Example Sentences
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“Betting against them is a dangerous game,” said Thorne Perkin, president of wealth manager Papamarkou Wellner Perkin.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 30, 2025
However, its chair Toby Perkin noted that technological solutions - such as sustainable aviation fuel - were not yet being used on a commercial scale.
From BBC • Oct. 23, 2025
“Compared to Tucson, they put on a nice operation here,” Mr. Perkin said of the site, the Empire Polo Club, best known as the annual site of the Coachella Music Festival.
From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2024
His other honors include the Galvani Prize of the Bio-electrochemical Society, the Humboldt Prize, the Feynman Prize, and the Royal Society of Chemistry Horizon Prize, the Perkin prize in physical organic chemistry.
From Science Daily • Dec. 29, 2023
I’m working in Camden, at Perkin and Rashid, which is a Chartered Survayors.
From "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon
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