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Elroy

American  
[el-roi] / ˈɛl rɔɪ /

noun

  1. a male given name.


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To get to and from his classroom, Elroy jets through a series of air tubes called the “school homing network.”

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 30, 2026

If that sounds solid if unspectacular, you’d be right: according to the financial-market historians Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh and Mike Staunton, the average return on U.S. equities, dating back to 1900, is 9.7% per year.

From MarketWatch Nov. 18, 2025

Chicago, which had scored 20 runs in its previous two games, loaded the bases twice in the first two innings but only scored once on an RBI single by Elroy Jiménez in the first.

From Washington Times Jul. 1, 2023

Riker instantly agrees on a scheme to hit the road to the Ryton system, like Jake and Elroy.

From New York Times Feb. 16, 2023

Buster Holt and Elroy Knabb were so moved they fairly fled the service afterward to spread the Word.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool

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