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Goncharov

American  
[gon-chuh-rawf, -rof, guhn-chyi-rawf] / ˈgɒn tʃəˌrɔf, -ˌrɒf, gən tʃyɪˈrɔf /

noun

  1. Ivan Alexandrovich 1812–91, Russian novelist.


Goncharov British  
/ ˌɡʌntʃəˈrɔf /

noun

  1. Ivan Aleksandrovich (ɪˈvan alɛksanˈdrɔvɪtʃ). 1812–91, Russian novelist: his best-known work is Oblomov (1859)

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“I think humanoids will do a tiny layer of tasks in factories in the future,” Goncharov said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025

“It looks believable,” says Alexander Goncharov, a physicist at the Carnegie Institution for Science.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 8, 2023

Goncharov is right, though, that privacy policies and terms are often broad.

From Slate • Jul. 18, 2019

"Foreign policy is viewed as a spectacle here," said Goncharov.

From Reuters • Oct. 9, 2015

After him followed the preachers: Gogol, Tolstoi, Goncharov, Tchehov, Turgeniev, Dostojevsky, and many others, like a choir, in which three voices are still the strongest and most expressive: Gogol, Tolstoi, Dostojevsky.

From The Religious Spirit of the Slavs (1916) Sermons On Subjects Suggested By The War, Third Series by Velimirović, Nikolai