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Bunin

American  
[boo-nyin] / ˈbu njɪn /

noun

  1. Ivan Alekseevich 1870–1953, Russian poet and novelist: Nobel Prize 1933.


Bunin British  
/ ˈbunin /

noun

  1. Ivan Alekseyevich (iˈvan alɪkˈsjejɪvitʃ). 1870–1953, Russian novelist and poet; author of The Gentleman from San Francisco (1922)

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Rather, they often operate in what is called the "Multiple Attractors" phase, a concept predicted in 2017 by theoretical physicist Guy Bunin.

From Science Daily Feb. 18, 2026

The list was obtained by Xinjiang scholar Gene Bunin from an anonymous source who described themselves as a member of China’s Han Chinese majority “opposed to the Chinese government’s policies in Xinjiang.”

From Washington Times May 16, 2022

Bunin, the researcher compiling Uyghur testimonies, estimates that only a few dozen Uyghurs have managed to leave China after detention in a camp, plus several hundred ethnic Kazakhs from Xinjiang.

From Seattle Times Mar. 17, 2021

After all, as Bunin puts it, its world is both “mythic and mundane,” with its elfin leads driving around in a van that has seen better days.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 25, 2021

For even Bunin is a poet and a stylist rather than a story teller: his most characteristic "stories" are works of pure atmosphere, as diffuse and as skeletonless as a picture by Claude Monet.

From Tales of the Wilderness by Pilniak, Boris

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