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Holley

American  
[hol-ee] / ˈhɒl i /

noun

  1. Robert William, 1922–1993, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1968.


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“It doesn’t mean that their review is going to be more extensive than usual,” said Ray Seilie, an entertainment attorney at law firm Kinsella Holley Iser Kump Steinsapir.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

In the statement Thursday, Holley added that the claim of sexual battery “was disputed, as were the other claims made in Ms. Barnett’s lawsuit.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026

“Her work as a journalist is central to this,” her lawyer Mike Holley said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 2026

A new statistical study led by Elizabeth Holley and her research team shows that valuable minerals could be recovered as byproducts from active U.S. metal mines, sharply reducing the nation's reliance on foreign imports.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 28, 2025

It was Oberlin that gave us Lucy Stone, Rev. Antoinette Brown Blackwell, Sallie Holley, and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, to speak early and brave words for woman and the slave.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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