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Elkin

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[el-kin] / ˈɛl kɪn /

noun

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


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Elkin told police the cremation had not taken place because they had not received payment but, in fact, they had been paid in full, prosecutors said.

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026

Richard Elkin, 49, and Hayley Bell, 42, were also convicted at Portsmouth Crown Court of intentionally causing a public nuisance and fraud.

From BBC • Dec. 12, 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

The technique sprouted from conversations between the Persson group and experimental collaborators Masha Elkin and Connor Delaney, former postdoctoral researchers in the John Hartwig group at UC Berkeley.

From Science Daily • Apr. 8, 2024

He would never have expected Elkin capable of such soulful talk.

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

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