Stony Brook

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noun

a town in N Long Island, in SE New York.

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Yang retired from Stony Brook in 1999 and moved back to China a few years later to teach freshman physics at Tsinghua.
China’s path to modernization has, for centuries, gone through my hometown|Yangyang Cheng|June 30, 2021|MIT Technology Review
Shortly after the NCAA’s decision, the transfer from Stony Brook was able to suit up Wednesday evening for the Hurricanes, who were reduced by injuries to just six healthy scholarship players by the end of Saturday’s upset loss to Florida Gulf Coast.
NCAA grants blanket waiver to transfer athletes, most of whom can play right away|Des Bieler|December 17, 2020|Washington Post
Sara Sonnack, a Stony Brook journalism major who will be a senior next year, says she hopes she can make the trip.
NYC Auction Held to Raise Funds for Stony Brook’s New Marie Colvin Center|Caitlin Dickson|June 22, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Footnote 173: The creek referred to is Stony brook, northward from Roxbury fort.
The Military Journals of Two Private Soldiers, 1758-1775|Abraham Tomlinson

The road dropped into a rough glen, crossed a stony brook, and then wound along the side of a thickly wooded hill.
The Story Of Kennett|Bayard Taylor
Varied hyphenation was retained including Stony-Brook and Stonybrook.
Within the Capes|Howard Pyle
Then, what a wild and roaring little brook that Stony Brook was!
Nanny Merry|Anonymous
What would David have done had there not been a stony brook between him and Goliath that day?
Gordon Keith|Thomas Nelson Page