Atkins
Americannoun
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Chester Chet, 1924–2001, U.S. country-and-western singer and musician.
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Ros Atkins reports on how the new PM uses social media to get his message across.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
Fellow Americans Corey Parker and Kyle Atkins will be assistant referees while Italian Maurizio Mariani is the fourth official.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
“You would think it should be down,” Atkins said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2026
Atkins and SEC’s two other commissioners now argue that stockbrokers already have a strict legal duty to execute trades with the most favorable terms for their clients, making the trade-through rule superfluous.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
In their play Diary of a Red Army Woman, writers Violet Atkins and William Bacher introduced their American audience to a fictional Russian female bomber pilot.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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