Alvin

American  

[al-vin] / ˈæl vɪn /

noun

1. a town in southern Texas.

2. a first name: from Old English words meaning “elf ” and “friend.”

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Example Sentences

Ratner has said he didn’t have a relationship with his father until he was teenager, citing that absence as a reason he routinely forged friendships with older men, including Alvin Malnik, a high-profile Miami Beach investor and restaurateur whom Ratner has described as a father figure.

From The Wall Street Journal

That signaling system was put together with the help of Stanford economist Alvin Roth, who also developed systems for matching kidney donors with patients and New York City schoolchildren with schools.

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During testimony of a key witness in the fraud trial of Archegos Capital executives, Judge Alvin Hellerstein abruptly paused the proceedings to take a FaceTime call.

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Over the past few decades, the field of market design, pioneered by economists including Alvin Roth, a Nobel laureate, has focused on designing better rules for high-stakes allocations.

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Pollack gave a hint of his defense strategy during Monday's brief arraignment of Maduro before District Judge Alvin Hellerstein, questioning the "legality of his abduction" by the US military.

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