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Borelli

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[baw-rel-ee, buh-, baw-rel-lee] / bɔˈrɛl i, bə-, bɔˈrɛl li /

noun

  1. Giovanni Alfonso 1608–79, Italian astronomer, physicist, and physiologist.


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Steven Borelli is the chief executive of the athleisure clothing firm CUTS, which manufactures outside the US, shipping products to a warehouse in Mexico, from where packages are mailed to customers in the US.

From BBC May 10, 2025

Borelli, on the other hand, said reversing the lower courts’ decisions would cause “true harm” to the lives and health of transgender people in both states.

From Washington Times Sep. 21, 2023

Joe Borelli, a New York City councilman and longtime Trump ally, said DeSantis talked about recruiting law enforcement officers in Florida, the state’s crime rate and how it could be a model for other states.

From Washington Post Feb. 25, 2023

Asking the court to affirm the lower court ruling, Lambda Legal Senior Counsel Tara Borelli argued on behalf of state employees Wednesday that these exclusions are targeted discrimination.

From Seattle Times Jan. 25, 2023

This theme of the body as a machine was developed in the seventeenth century by another Italian, Giovanni Borelli, who was an older contemporary and friend of Malpighi.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin

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