Perkin
noun
Sir William Henry, 1838–1907, English chemist.
Perkin
American
[pur-kin]
/ ˈpɜr kɪn /
noun
perkin
British
/ ˈpɜːkɪn /
noun
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“We’re expecting another record-breaking year where more people are going to need help,” said Perkin Simpson, chief executive of Generation Power CT, a Connecticut nonprofit that provides financial aid for heating oil.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
However, its chair Toby Perkin noted that technological solutions - such as sustainable aviation fuel - were not yet being used on a commercial scale.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2025
“Compared to Tucson, they put on a nice operation here,” Mr. Perkin said of the site, the Empire Polo Club, best known as the annual site of the Coachella Music Festival.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2024
His other honors include the Galvani Prize of the Bio-electrochemical Society, the Humboldt Prize, the Feynman Prize, and the Royal Society of Chemistry Horizon Prize, the Perkin prize in physical organic chemistry.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 29, 2023
The company is run by two men called Mr. Perkin and Mr. Rashid.
From "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon
They gave us sausages, cigars, sweets, and perkin.
From The Healing of Nations and the Hidden Sources of Their Strife by Edward Carpenter
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