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Neil

American  
[neel] / nil /

noun

  1. a male given name: from an Irish word meaning “champion.”


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Alongside the announcement, Netflix released a teaser video which showed Will, Simon, Neil and Jay return to their iconic yellow Fiat.

From BBC Sep. 7, 2026

Dr Neil Stanley, sleep expert and author of the book How to Sleep Well, argues that gamifying sleep is creating more disordered sleeping.

From BBC Sep. 3, 2026

NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is back to studying the universe with two of its three science instruments after plans to raise the spacecraft into a higher orbit were scaled back.

From Science Daily Sep. 1, 2026

Neil Parikh, Slingshot AI’s co-founder, told us they’re testing pricing now for Ash.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

He’d said at the cabin he didn’t like to talk about Neil, but I didn’t know something this small counted too.

From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon

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