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Stony Brook

American  

noun

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


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Laura has an undergraduate degree from Stony Brook University on Long Island, where she studied journalism and political science.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 28, 2026

But Paul Gootenberg, a professor at Stony Brook University and author of “Andean Cocaine: The Making of a Global Drug,” characterized Trump’s military operation as a “simplistic” approach to complex social problems.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 6, 2025

Besides Brown University and Stony Brook University in the US, the other winning bids came from institutions in France, Germany, Japan, Pakistan, the UK.

From BBC • Apr. 25, 2025

This approach, published in 2017, was developed by Dmitri Kharzeev, a theorist affiliated with both Brookhaven Lab and Stony Brook University who is a co-author on the paper, and Eugene Levin of Tel Aviv University.

From Science Daily • Dec. 2, 2024

Paris—from clear off in France—and then the words below—and Maw's name at the top, just like the address on the newspaper: Mrs. Jere Haynes, Stony Brook, New York.

From The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)

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