Shapiro

American

[shuh-peer-oh] / ʃəˈpɪər oʊ /

noun

Karl (Jay), 1913–2000, U.S. poet and editor.

Shapiro British

/ ʃəˈpiːrəʊ /

noun

Jonathan. publishing as Zapiro . born 1958, South African political cartoonist

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Gallio studies how temperature shapes biology and is the Soretta and Henry Shapiro Research Professor in Molecular Biology as well as a professor of neurobiology at Northwestern's Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences.

From Science Daily • Mar. 26, 2026

In 1985, they made history with the songs The Show and La-Di-da-Di, the "greatest two-sided single since Hound Dog/Love Me Tender", as critic Peter Shapiro later wrote in The Rough Guide to Hip-Hop.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026

Papic was discussing the war and its ongoing repercussions with Jacob Shapiro, an independent geopolitical consultant, on his regular “Geopolitical Cousins” podcast that was published on Friday.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 16, 2026

Mr. Shapiro has his Jewishness and his connection to Israel.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

Gas tables; thermodynamic properties of air, products of combustion and component gases, compressible flow functions, including those of Ascher H. Shapiro and Gilbert M. Edelman.

From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1976 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

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