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Sorokin

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[suh-roh-kin, saw-, suh-raw-kyin] / səˈroʊ kɪn, sɔ-, sʌˈrɔ kjɪn /

noun

  1. Pitirim Alexandrovitch 1889–1968, U.S. sociologist, born in Russia.


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“This means that both capital and operating costs to bring this resource out of the ground will grow,” Deputy Energy Minister Pavel Sorokin said at a conference last year.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 28, 2025

Alawieh’s lawyers asked a court to intervene, and Judge Leo Theodore Sorokin promptly barred her deportation in an order signed Friday.

From Slate Mar. 17, 2025

Neither Judge Sorokin nor Judge Boasberg believed that he was signing a meaningless order, and both judges demanded compliance that never came.

From Slate Mar. 17, 2025

The reference hardly seems accidental: Netflix was criticized for paying fake heiress Anna Sorokin a hefty fee for the rights to adapt her life story into “Inventing Anna.”

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 6, 2025

“By no stretch of the imagination or of standards of genius,” Sorokin concluded, “is the ‘gifted group’ as a whole gifted.’

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell

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