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Erwin

American  
[ur-win] / ˈɜr wɪn /

noun

  1. a male given name: from Old English words meaning “boar” and “friend.”


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“They admitted what was true,” Erwin Chemerinsky, the dean of UC Berkeley’s law school and lead counsel for the plaintiffs in the researchers’ lawsuit, told me.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 28, 2026

Built in Potsdam, Germany, for astronomer Erwin Finlay Freundlich to test the theory of relativity, the observatory’s curvaceous and flowing design captured the spirit of modern science.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

Independent director and producer Jon Erwin insists the core of the craft isn't going anywhere.

From Barron's Jul. 22, 2026

One of the most famous illustrations of quantum mechanics came in 1935, when Erwin Schrödinger proposed his cat paradox.

From Science Daily Jul. 5, 2026

Once at the bonfire—he’d stopped me—again when Erwin had died—and he’d stopped me again.

From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia

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