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Stony Brook

American  

noun

  1. a town in N Long Island, in SE New York.


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The costs are wildly different: average annual cost on the College Scorecard is $3,967 at Cal State Los Angeles, $18,784 at Stony Brook and $25,239 at St. Michael’s.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026

But Paul Gootenberg, a professor at Stony Brook University and author of “Andean Cocaine: The Making of a Global Drug,” characterized Trump’s military operation as a “simplistic” approach to complex social problems.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 6, 2025

Besides Brown University and Stony Brook University in the US, the other winning bids came from institutions in France, Germany, Japan, Pakistan, the UK.

From BBC • Apr. 25, 2025

This approach, published in 2017, was developed by Dmitri Kharzeev, a theorist affiliated with both Brookhaven Lab and Stony Brook University who is a co-author on the paper, and Eugene Levin of Tel Aviv University.

From Science Daily • Dec. 2, 2024

Anne and Rachel, followers since the Stony Brook days, drove west together from Boston and arrived a month later, in time for the second meeting.

From Take Me for a Ride: coming of age in a destructive cult by Laxer, Mark Eliot

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