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Sinosauropteryx (中华龙鸟)

Sinosauropteryx (中华龙鸟), a small compsognathid theropod from the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota of Liaoning, China; first non-avian dinosaur found with feathers, named 1996, with ginger coloration and banded tail reconstructed from melanosomes.

Sinotrans Ltd.

Sinotrans Ltd. (中国外运股份有限公司) is China's largest freight forwarding company and the unified logistics platform of China Merchants Group, dual listed in Hong Kong since 2003 and Shanghai since 2019.

Sinotruk

Sinotruk (中国重汽), formally China National Heavy Duty Truck Group, is a Chinese heavy-truck maker founded in 1956 in Jinan, Shandong, and known for HOWO trucks.

Sinotruk Hong Kong

Sinotruk (Hong Kong) Limited is a Hong Kong-listed truck manufacturer and China's largest heavy-truck maker, which in 2025 sold 415,276 trucks and became the first Chinese brand to lead global heavy-truck sales.

Sinovac 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine

Sinovac 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13), developed by Beijing Sinovac Zhongwei; clinical trial application accepted 2011, Phase III by 2022, NDA expected Q3 2026; targets 13 S. pneumoniae serotypes.

Sinovac Biotech

Sinovac Biotech (科兴控股生物技术有限公司), Beijing-based NASDAQ-listed (SVA) vaccine maker; known for CoronaVac COVID-19 vaccine, WHO-prequalified Healive, sIPV, and varicella vaccines, and pandemic flu vaccines Panflu and Panflu.1.

Sinovac bivalent enterovirus (EV71/CA16) vaccine HFMD2

HFMD2 is a bivalent inactivated whole-virus vaccine candidate by Sinovac against hand, foot and mouth disease caused by enterovirus 71 and coxsackievirus A16, the two most prevalent causative agents in China.

Sinovac live attenuated varicella vaccine

Sinovac live attenuated varicella vaccine (VarV), made by Sinovac (Dalian) from the Oka strain in the SV-1 human diploid cell line; WHO-prequalified 3 November 2022 as the first Chinese varicella vaccine, non-inferior to VARIVAX in phase III trials.

Sinovation Ventures (创新工场)

Sinovation Ventures (创新工场), formerly Innovation Works, is a Beijing-based venture capital firm founded in 2009 by Kai-Fu Lee, with a strong focus on artificial intelligence.

Sinquefield Cup

Sinquefield Cup: annual elite invitational classical chess tournament in St. Louis, founded 2013 by Rex and Jeanne Sinquefield, a Grand Chess Tour leg since 2015; 10-player round-robin, $475,000 fund in 2026, won by Wesley So.

Sins of My Father (film)

Sins of My Father (Pecados de mi padre), 2009 documentary by Nicolás Entel, tells Pablo Escobar's story through his son Sebastián Marroquín, who seeks reconciliation with the sons of Escobar's victims; premiered at Mar del Plata, released on 25 Colombian screens and HBO.

Sins of the Father

"Sins of the Father" (also "the sins of the fathers") is the biblical phrase, from the Ten Commandments and Deuteronomy 5:9, describing sin's consequences passing to later generations, countered by Ezekiel 18:20; also the title of many novels by Archer, Dixon, Bale, and others.

Sins of the Father (TV series)

Sins of the Father (originally titled Nobody) is a 2025 Philippine ABS-CBN crime thriller mystery teleserye starring Gerald Anderson as Samuel Trinidad, produced by JRB Creative Production, directed by FM Reyes and Bjoy Balagtas, airing June 23 to November 21, 2025 on Kapamilya Channel, A2Z, TV5, iWant, and TFC.

Sinsavac

SinSaVac (СинСаВак) is a live attenuated yellow fever vaccine, strain 17D, made by Russia's Chumakov Federal Scientific Center; WHO prequalified 14 October 2022, 10-dose vial, subcutaneous 0.5 mL dose.

Sinsheim

Sinsheim, also Sunnensheim, is a Große Kreisstadt of about 37,000 residents in the Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg, first recorded 770/771, a town since 1192, home to the Technik Museum.

Sinsini Jat confederacy

The Sinsini Jat confederacy (सिंसिनी जाट) was a Jat polity of the late Mughal period, based at Sinsini and Thun, that grew into the state of Bharatpur.

Sinsk Formation

Sinsk Formation: Early Cambrian lime mudstone unit (516–513 Ma, Botomian) on the Siberian Platform, Sakha, Russia, with exceptionally preserved fossils and the type record of the Sinsk event, the first major Phanerozoic extinction.

Sinsoseol

Sinsoseol (신소설, "new fiction"), also called Gaehwagi fiction, is the body of Korean novels written from about 1906 to 1917 that spread enlightenment themes and bridged classical and modern fiction.

Sint Eustatius

Sint Eustatius, known locally as Statia, is a small Dutch Caribbean island in the Leeward Islands that became a special municipality of the Netherlands in 2010.

Sint Maarten

Sint Maarten, Dutch Sint Maarten, southern half of the Caribbean island shared with French Saint Martin; a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands since 10 October 2010, capital Philipsburg, tourism-driven economy, population about 42,000.

Sint-Truidense V.V.

Sint-Truidense V.V. (STVV, De Kanaries), Belgian Pro League club founded 23 February 1924 from FC Gold-Star and FC Union merger; plays at Stayen since 1926, Japanese-owned by DMM since 2018, Europa League debut 2026.

Sintang Sultanate

The Sintang Sultanate was a Malay kingdom and later Islamic sultanate in the interior of West Kalimantan, Indonesia, at the confluence of the Kapuas and Melawi rivers.

Sintashta culture

Sintashta culture: Bronze Age archaeological culture (c. 2100–1800 cal BC) of the Southern Trans-Urals, also called Sintashta-Petrovka; known for fortified circular settlements, early spoked-wheel chariots, metallurgy, and its debated identification with Proto-Indo-Iranian speakers.

SINTEF Ocean

SINTEF Ocean is a Norwegian research institute for marine technology, fisheries, and aquaculture, part of the SINTEF group and headquartered at the Marine Technology Centre in Trondheim.

Sintering

Sintering is a manufacturing process that heats compacted powder below its melting point, bonding particles into a solid piece, used chiefly for ceramics and powder metallurgy.

Sinterklaas

Sinterklaas, also known as Sint-Nicolaas, is the Dutch and Flemish gift-bringing winter figure dressed as a bishop, celebrated each year on the evening of 5 December.

Sinti

The Sinti are a Romani people of Central and Western Europe, distinct from the Roma by self-identification and the Romanes language; a recognized national minority in Germany since 1995, targeted in the Nazi genocide.

Sintilimab

Sintilimab (信迪利单抗, Tyvyt, IBI308) is an anti-PD-1 monoclonal antibody by Innovent Biologics and Eli Lilly, first approved in China in December 2018 for Hodgkin lymphoma, with seven reimbursed indications and a 2022 FDA ODAC rejection.

Sintofen

Sintofen (aka cintofen), CAS 130561-48-7, is an EU-approved cinnoline carboxylic acid plant growth regulator used as a wheat chemical hybridizing agent for hybrid seed production, with ADI 0.091 mg/kg bw/day and default MRL 0.01 mg/kg.

Sintonia

Sintonia is a Brazilian Netflix drama series (2019-2025, five seasons) created by KondZilla, Guilherme Quintella, and Felipe Braga, following friends Doni, Nando, and Rita in a São Paulo favela through funk, crime, and religion.