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Ellison

American  
[el-uh-suhn] / ˈɛl ə sən /

noun

  1. Ralph (Waldo) 1914–1994, U.S. novelist, essayist, and lecturer.


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The mood inside Paramount is one of urgency: Chief Executive David Ellison pushed aggressively to merge with Warner soon after his Skydance acquisition of Paramount closed last year.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 27, 2026

Attempts to get Ellison to testify in Congress have fallen short.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 25, 2026

It was a major win for media mogul David Ellison -- his father, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, largely financed the takeover and is a Trump ally.

From Barron's Jul. 20, 2026

Unsurprisingly, both Larry and David Ellison are big fans of artificial intelligence, seeing it as a way to streamline their surveillance operations, and for what David Ellison euphemistically calls “cost efficiencies and synergies.”

From Salon Jul. 20, 2026

He wanted to believe that Sheed didn’t keep things from him; only he’d never admitted his crush on Leen Ellison.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles

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