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Alex

American  
[al-iks] / ˈæl ɪks /

noun

  1. a first name, form of Alexander, Alexandra.


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Lamarco and his firm have previously been drawn into court battles involving celebrity attorney Alex Spiro, and once generated a few media headlines after Lamarco challenged late-night host Jimmy Fallon to a $1 million bet.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 10, 2026

“Regulation in terms of slowing the pace of model innovation, would that hurt us on some level in terms of an enterprise? Sure,” said Alex Balazs, chief technology officer of financial-software maker Intuit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026

Careless Wales play allowed Japan to steal possession from a home breakdown as scrum-half Tomos Williams was caught, with flanker Gunter outflanking Josh Adams and Alex Mann.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026

But after the outrage over shootings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good by immigration agents in Minneapolis in January prompted the White House to roll back the policy, he has kept a lower profile.

From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026

My eyes land on Alex, one of the best violinists in our sophomore year.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

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