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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

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

But on Tuesday during the show’s prime-time season premiere, there will be a twist, when convicted fraudster Anna Delvey - real name Anna Sorokin - takes to the floor wearing a bejewelled ankle monitor.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2024

“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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