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Niarchos

American  
[nee-ahr-kohs, nee-ahr-khaws] / niˈɑr koʊs, ˈni ɑr xɔs /

noun

  1. Stavros Spyros 1909–1996, Greek businessman and shipowner.


Niarchos British  
/ nɪˈɑːkɒs /

noun

  1. Stavros Spyro (ˈstævrɒs ˈspɪərəʊ). 1909–96, Greek shipowner. He pioneered the use of supertankers in the 1950s

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Example Sentences

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The industry’s founding fathers, Aristotle Onassis and Stavros Niarchos, became rich navigating turbulent oil markets during 20th-century geopolitical crises.

From The Wall Street Journal

"Initially we hypothesized that more tumor EV-DNA would mean a worse prognosis, but we were surprised to find the opposite," said study co-senior author Dr. David Lyden, the Stavros S. Niarchos Professor in Pediatric Cardiology and a professor of Pediatrics and of Cell and Developmental Biology at Weill Cornell Medicine.

From Science Daily

Scientists at Columbia University’s newly launched Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for Precision Psychiatry & Mental Health are planning this fall to screen for autoantibodies in patients in the New York state mental health system—14 psychiatric centers totaling 3000 beds—who may have undiagnosed autoimmune conditions.

From Science Magazine

Lohan and Hilton reportedly had been feuding since 2006 when the two were spotted having an argument at an L.A. club because Lohan was rumored to have been seeing Hilton’s ex-partner Stavros Niarchos.

From Los Angeles Times

The final installment of 600 Highwaymen’s pandemic triptych takes place in an antiseptically corporate room on the top floor of the New York Public Library’s Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library, on Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan.

From New York Times