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Saroglitazar
Saroglitazar (Lipaglyn) is a dual PPAR α/γ agonist by Zydus, approved in India in 2013 for diabetic dyslipidemia and in 2020 for NAFLD; not FDA approved, with a PBC NDA under Priority Review.
Saroj Khan
Saroj Khan (सरोज खान, born Nirmala Nagpal, 1948; died 2020) was Hindi cinema's pioneering female choreographer, known as Masterji. She choreographed over 2,000 songs for 344 films, including Hawa Hawai, Ek Do Teen and Dola Re Dola, winning 3 National Film Awards and 8 Filmfare Awards.
Saroj Smriti
Saroj Smriti (सरोज स्मृति), "In Memory of Saroj", is a long 1935 Hindi elegy by the Chhayavad poet Nirala, mourning his daughter Saroj and considered Hindi's finest elegy.
Saroj Vadhan‐Raj
Saroj Vadhan-Raj, also published as S. Vadhan-Raj, is a physician-scientist in hematology and oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, known for clinical trials of the growth factors GM-CSF and thrombopoietin.
Saroja (சரோஜா) (2008 film)
Saroja (சரோஜா) is a 2008 Tamil comedy thriller, Venkat Prabhu's second film after Chennai 600028, produced by T. Siva with music by Yuvan Shankar Raja, about four friends entangled in a kidnapping en route to a cricket match; released 5 September 2008.
Sarojini Naidu
Sarojini Naidu (1879–1949), the Nightingale of India, was an Indian English poet and nationalist leader: Congress president at Kanpur in 1925, leader of the Dharasana salt raid in 1930, and the first woman governor of an Indian state (United Provinces, 1947–1949).
Sarong
Sarong (Malay sarung, "sheath"): a tubular wrapped lower-body garment of Southeast Asia, also called sampot, longyi, or phaa sinh; worn by men and women, decorated with batik and ikat, and repeatedly revived in Western fashion from Dorothy Lamour to Dries Van Noten.
Saronic Gulf (Σαρωνικός κόλπος)
The Saronic Gulf is a semi-enclosed embayment of the Aegean Sea that serves as the marine gateway for Athens and Piraeus. It holds islands like Salamis and Aegina and is a major sailing area.
Saronic Technologies, Inc.
Saronic Technologies is an American defense technology company in Austin, Texas, founded in 2022, that builds autonomous surface vessels for surveillance, logistics, and electronic warfare missions.
Saroo Brierley
Saroo Brierley (Saroo Munshi Khan), Indian-born Australian lost at age 5 on a train near Khandwa in 1986, adopted in Tasmania, and reunited with his mother in 2012 after locating his hometown via Google Earth; memoir A Long Way Home inspired the film Lion.
Saros (astronomy)
The saros, also called the saros cycle, is an eclipse cycle of 18 years, 11 days, and 8 hours, after which a very similar solar or lunar eclipse occurs.
Saros (video game)
Saros is a 2026 third-person action roguelite by Housemarque for PS5 and PS5 Pro, a spiritual evolution of Returnal. Arjun Devraj (Rahul Kohli) searches the lost colony Carcosa under an eclipse, with permanent death progression, released April 30, 2026.
Sarotherodon galilaeus
Sarotherodon galilaeus, the mango tilapia or Galilee cichlid (St. Peter's fish), is a mouthbrooding African cichlid native to the Jordan, Nile, and Niger systems, with flexible biparental care, filter-feeding diet, and aquaculture use in Africa and Israel.
Sarpa salpa
Sarpa salpa, the salema or salema porgy, is a Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic sea bream (Sparidae) whose adults graze seaweed and Posidonia seagrass; it is a protandrous hermaphrodite and can rarely cause hallucinatory fish poisoning when eaten.
Sarpanch (सरपंच)
Sarpanch (सरपंच), also called Pradhan or Mukhia, is the elected head of a Gram Panchayat in India's Panchayati Raj system, elected directly or indirectly under state law, presiding over the Gram Sabha for a five-year term.
Sarpanitum Corona
Sarpanitum Corona: a 170-km-wide corona (quasi-circular volcano-tectonic feature) on Venus at 52.3S, 14.6E, in quad v56; IAU-approved 1994 and named for a Babylonian fertility goddess; lies on the Derceto-Quetzalpetlatl extensional belt.
Sarpatta Parambarai (சர்பட்டா பரம்பரை)
Sarpatta Parambarai (சர்பட்டா பரம்பரை) is a 2021 Tamil period boxing drama by Pa. Ranjith, starring Arya as Kabilan, released on Amazon Prime Video July 22, 2021, set in 1970s North Madras during the Emergency, with a prequel Round 2 filming from 2026.
Sarpay Beikman Manuscript Awards
The Sarpay Beikman Manuscript Awards are annual Burmese literary prizes given since 1969 by the publishing house Sarpay Beikman for outstanding unpublished manuscripts, distinct from the National Literary Awards for published books.
Sarpedon Linea
Sarpedon Linea, a 900-km linea (linear fracture marking) on Jupiter's moon Europa, centered near 49.5 degrees south; named in 1979 for the Greek son of Europa and Zeus.
Šarplaninac
Šarplaninac (Jugoslovenski ovčarski pas-Šarplaninac), FCI Standard No. 41, a large Serbian/Macedonian livestock guardian dog from the Šar Mountains; registered 1939 as Illyrian Shepherd Dog, renamed 1957; iron-grey solid coat, males 62 cm, 35–45 kg.
Sarpreet Singh (ਸਰਪ੍ਰੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ)
Sarpreet Singh (ਸਰਪ੍ਰੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ), born 1999 in Auckland, is a New Zealand attacking midfielder of Punjabi Sikh heritage; ex-Bayern Munich, now SC Farense; 31 NZ caps, first Sikh to play at a FIFA World Cup (2026).
Sarpy County
Sarpy County, Nebraska, smallest county by area (241 sq mi) but third largest by population (190,604 in 2020); county seat Papillion; named for fur trader Peter Sarpy; formed from Douglas County February 7, 1857; home of Offutt Air Force Base and Bellevue, Nebraska's oldest settlement.
Sarracenia
Sarracenia, the American pitcher plants, a genus of 8-11 carnivorous perennial herbs in Sarraceniaceae native to eastern North American bogs, with hooded pitfall traps, microbe-assisted digestion, and several endangered species.
Sarracenia cultivars and hybrids
Sarracenia cultivars and hybrids are the named cultivated forms and crosses of the North American pitcher plant genus Sarracenia, whose species interbreed freely into fertile hybrids.
Sarrainodu (సరైనోడు)
Sarrainodu (సరైనోడు), 2016 Telugu action drama by Boyapati Srinu starring Allu Arjun as ex-soldier Gana against land-grabber Vairam Dhanush; grossed INR1.27 billion and set a YouTube dub record.
Sarrancolin
Sarrancolin is a polychrome brecciated marble quarried since antiquity in the Neste d'Aure valley, Hautes-Pyrénées, France, decorating Versailles, the Paris Opéra, and the Empire State Building.
Sarraounia
Sarraounia, also known as Sarraounia Mangou, was the political and religious queen of Lougou in southwestern Niger, known for resisting the French Voulet–Chanoine column in 1899.
Šarrat-niphi temple (Kalhu)
Šarrat-niphi temple, a Neo-Assyrian shrine at Kalhu (Nimrud), Iraq, built by Assurnasirpal II (r. 883–859 BC) for Ištar as "blazing queen"; guarded by colossal inscribed lions, one now in the British Museum.
SARS
SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome), caused by SARS-CoV (SARS-CoV-1), emerged in Guangdong, China in November 2002, caused 8,096 cases and 774 deaths in 26 countries, and was contained by July 2003 through isolation and quarantine alone.
SARS conspiracy theory
SARS conspiracy theories are claims that SARS and SARS-CoV-2 were deliberately created or released as biological weapons, with rumors emerging in 2003 and again during the COVID-19 pandemic.