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Alessandro

American  
[al-i-san-droh] / ˌæl ɪˈsæn droʊ /

noun

  1. Victor Nicholas, 1915–76, U.S. orchestra conductor.


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Study co-author Alessandro Chiarenza, a paleontologist at University College London, said an internally regulated body temperature could have allowed tyrannosaurs to live in regions where cold-blooded reptiles struggled to survive.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

Italy's Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli hailed the wreck as "one of the most important underwater archaeological discoveries of recent years".

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

Countertenor Kangmin Justin Kim sang Alessandro with a hooded quality and too much vibrato; he sounded messy, especially in the big register jumps of his agitated Act 2 aria.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

But this evidently is not the case, said Alessandro Previtero of Indiana University, who co-authored the study with Borja Larrain of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and Felipe Severino of Dartmouth College.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026

I remember the soft face of Alessandro de’ Medici, the royal bearing of Bosch’s black magi.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates

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