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Elkin

American  
[el-kin] / ˈɛl kɪn /

noun

  1. Stanley, 1930–1995, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.


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Prosecutor Lesley Bates KC told the court Elkin and Bell Funerals was "insolvent" and its business model was "a case of robbing Peter to pay Paul".

From BBC Feb. 19, 2026

Prosecutors said 46 bodies were kept in the uncooled mortuary at Elkin and Bell Funerals in Gosport, Hampshire, in 2022 and 2023.

From BBC Dec. 12, 2025

Her death was announced by her spokesman, David Elkin, who said she died in a house fire in the Minneapolis suburb of Woodbury.

From Los Angeles Times May 1, 2025

“You have 15 to 20 minutes until the oxygen supply to the baby stops and the baby dies or suffers brain damage,” said Dr. Aaron Elkin, a Florida obstetrician.

From New York Times Jun. 15, 2024

She wondered whether Elkin or Boulatoff knew anything about that man.

From The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia by Cahan, Abraham

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