Ostrovsky

/ ɒsˈtrɒfskɪ /

noun

1. OstrovskyAleksandr Nikolayevich18231886MRussianTHEATRE: dramatist Aleksandr Nikolayevich. 1823–86, Russian dramatist, noted for his satirical comedies about the bourgeoisie. His plays include The Bankrupt (1849) and The Storm (1859), a tragedy

Example Sentences

"In the past, only a handful of elite research groups would have had access to the resources needed to assemble these genomes. Now, anyone on the planet with access to the internet can visit the website and, with a few clicks of the button, run multiple scientific tools," said Alex Ostrovsky, a Johns Hopkins software engineer on the Galaxy team who was responsible for making the tools easy to use for noncoders.

From Science Daily

“Oh, nothing to see here. Just @nytimes publishing an op-ed by Hamas appointed mayor of Gaza, Yahya Sarraj,” Arsen Ostrovsky, an international human rights lawyer who identifies himself as a Zionist, wrote on X. “I wonder, would NYT also publish an op-ed from al-Qaida justifying 9-11? Of course not, but there is no red line to this paper’s Jew hatred.”

From Washington Times

But Russian émigré journalist Arkady Ostrovsky, in his book "The Invention of Russia," explains how that Wild West atmosphere came to exist in the first place.

From Salon

As Arkady Ostrovsky put it in this week’s issue of The Economist, Putin has been “not so much a dictator as a kingpin, fomenting rivalries between his chiefs so as to make himself indispensable—the only man powerful enough to stand between order and chaos.”

From Slate

This, Ostrovsky writes, may have been “the most serious blow” of Prigozhin’s mutiny: It “brought down a large part of the edifice of Mr. Putin’s state, leaving him humiliated and wounded in the eyes of his peers.”

From Slate