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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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Elkin was additionally convicted of making and using a false instrument by displaying a forged certificate from the National Association of Funeral Directors, they added.

From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2025

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

Elkin stood, thinking glumly, at the window for a few minutes, and then said: “Very well, I am going.”

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

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