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[stoh-nee] / ˈstoʊ ni /


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Shadmany, Jaffe, Schuster, and Simon, as well as Aishwarya Kumar of Stony Brook, hold a patent on the resonator geometry demonstrated in this work.

From Science Daily • Feb. 2, 2026

“He was a reassuring presence in the absence of national leadership,” said Leonie Huddy, a political psychologist at Stony Brook University who studies gender in politics.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025

“This trackway is particularly beautifully preserved,” says paleoanthropologist Louise Leakey of Stony Brook University and director of the Koobi Fora Research Project.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 27, 2024

The company was registered in June 2016, started trading in March 2018 and is now based in Stony Stratford.

From BBC • Oct. 13, 2024

“But nobody lives up Stony Lonesome Road,” I pointed out.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck




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