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Persson

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[pair-suhn, per-sawn] / ˈpɛər sən, ˈpɛr sɔn /

noun

  1. Göran born 1949, prime minister of Sweden 1996–2006.


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Rossin-Slater and Persson, now tenured professors at Stanford, didn’t respond to a request for comment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

About the author: Martin E. Persson is an assistant professor of accountancy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a public voices fellow through The OpEd Project.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2025

The technique sprouted from conversations between the Persson group and experimental collaborators Masha Elkin and Connor Delaney, former postdoctoral researchers in the John Hartwig group at UC Berkeley.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 8, 2024

Johanna Larsson's side will be represented by four players who are all ranked outside the world's top 350 - Kajsa Rinaldo Persson, Caijsa Hennemann, Lisa Zaar, and Bella Bergkvist Larsson.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2023

Roderick Persson said, “If you’ll forgive me asking, but your guardian. He is well?”

From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman

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