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Sora artist protest leak
The Sora artist protest leak was a November 2024 incident in which artists with early access to OpenAI's Sora briefly exposed public video generation in protest.
Sora Matsushima (松島輝空)
Sora Matsushima (松島輝空, born 2007) is a Japanese left-handed table tennis player who became world No. 1 in October 2026 and won the All Japan Championships singles in 2025 and 2026.
SORA-Q
SORA-Q, formally Lunar Excursion Vehicle 2 (LEV-2), is a palm-sized transformable lunar rover by JAXA, Takara Tomy, Sony, and Doshisha University, deployed on the Moon in 2024.
Sorab Panday
Sorab Panday is a groundwater modeler and Principal Engineer at GSI Environmental, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2017 and best known as lead author of MODFLOW-USG.
Sorabe manuscripts
Sorabe manuscripts, meaning "great writing," are Malagasy-language texts in Arabic script produced by the Antemoro aristocracy of southeastern Madagascar, chiefly covering divination, astrology, genealogies, and chronicles.
Sorabji Pochkhanawala
Sir Sorabji Pochkhanawala (1881–1937) was a Parsi banker in Bombay who founded the Central Bank of India in 1911, the first Indian commercial bank wholly owned and managed by Indians.
Sorafenib
Sorafenib (Nexavar, BAY 43-9006) is Bayer and Onyx's first oral multikinase Raf inhibitor, FDA-approved in 2005 for advanced renal cell carcinoma and later for unresectable HCC and iodine-refractory thyroid cancer.
Sorafenib regimen
The sorafenib regimen is an oral cancer treatment taking 400 mg of sorafenib (Nexavar) twice daily, approved for advanced liver, kidney, and radioactive iodine-refractory thyroid cancers.
Soraia Ramos
Soraia Ramos is a Cape Verdean singer and songwriter, born in Portugal to Cape Verdean parents, whose kizomba and R&B hits include "Bai" (2019) and "BKBN" (2022).
Sorana Cîrstea
Sorana Cîrstea (Sorana Mihaela Cîrstea), Romanian tennis player born 1990 in Bucharest; four WTA singles titles (Tashkent 2008, Istanbul 2021, Cleveland 2025, Cluj-Napoca 2026), seven doubles titles, career-high No.15, retiring after 2026.
Sorano
Sorano, a tuff-cliff town in Grosseto province, Tuscan Maremma, Italy; an Etruscan site of unknown ancient name. Its Terme di Sorano yielded a Neolithic thermal-water structure dated 4495–4335 BC.
Sorath Rai Diyach
Sorath Rai Diyach (سورٺ راءِ ڏياچ) is a Sindhi folk epic in which king Rai Diyach of Junagadh gives his head to the musician Bijal.
Soratha
Soratha (सोरठा) is a four-line quantitative meter of Hindi poetry with 11 and 13 matras in alternate lines, described as the reverse of the doha.
Soratnik
Soratnik (Соратник, "Comrade-in-arms"), designated BAS-01G BM, is a Russian tracked unmanned combat ground vehicle developed by Kalashnikov Concern, first demonstrated at Army-2016 in September 2016.
Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary (ثریا اسفندیاری بختیاری)
Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary (ثریا اسفندیاری بختیاری), 1932–2001, was Queen of Iran 1951–1958 as second wife of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi; divorced for childlessness, titled Princess Soraya, lived in Paris, died 2001.
Soraya Jimenez
Soraya Jiménez Mendívil (1977–2013), Mexican weightlifter who won the women's 58 kg gold at Sydney 2000 with a 222.5 kg total, the first Olympic gold by a Mexican woman; died of a heart attack at 35.
Soraya Moraes
Soraya Moraes is a Brazilian gospel singer and pastor from São Paulo who has won four Latin Grammys over a career of more than three decades.
Soraya Tarzi (ثريا طرزي)
Soraya Tarzi (ثريا طرزي), known as Queen Soraya of Afghanistan, was the first Queen Consort of Afghanistan and a pioneering advocate of women's education and emancipation from 1919 to 1929.
Sorbet
Sorbet (Italian sorbetto, from Arabic sharbat) is a dairy-free frozen dessert of fruit juice or purée, water, and sugar, with 0% milk fat, distinct from sherbet, which contains dairy; typically 25–35% sugar, served as dessert or palate cleanser.
Sorbian languages
Sorbian languages (Serbšćina): Upper Sorbian (hornjoserbšćina, hsb) and Lower Sorbian (dolnoserbšćina, dsb), two West Slavic languages of the Sorb minority in Lusatia, Germany; Upper Sorbian has about 15,000 speakers, Lower Sorbian under 4,000 and is moribund.
Sorbian literature
Sorbian literature is the literature of the Sorbs, a Slavic minority of about 60,000 in Upper and Lower Lusatia, Germany, written in Upper and Lower Sorbian.
Sorbic acid
Sorbic acid is a naturally occurring six-carbon fatty acid used worldwide as an antimicrobial food preservative, known as E200 and applied mostly as its salt potassium sorbate.
Sorbinil
Sorbinil, a Pfizer aldose reductase inhibitor (hydantoin class) for diabetic complications; first ARI in clinical trials, failed efficacy in the Sorbinil Retinopathy Trial, withdrawn for hypersensitivity.
Sorbite
Sorbite, known in Chinese as 索氏体 and Japanese as ソルバイト, is a fine ferrite and cementite mixture in steel, formed either as very fine pearlite during cooling or by tempering martensite.
Sorbitol
Sorbitol, also called D-glucitol, is a sugar alcohol found in fruits and produced by hydrogenating glucose; about 60% as sweet as sugar, it serves as a sweetener, humectant, and feedstock for vitamin C synthesis.
Sorbo Necropolis - Regolini-Galassi tomb
Regolini-Galassi tomb, Sorbo necropolis, Cerveteri: intact Etruscan princely tomb found 22 April 1836 by Regolini and Galassi; gold pectoral, Parade Fibula, carts, and 'mi larthia' amphora now in the Vatican Museums.
Sorbonne University
Sorbonne Université, public Paris university created January 1, 2018 by merging Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) and Pierre and Marie Curie (Paris VI); three faculties, over 53,000 students, QS #73 (2027), withdrew from THE rankings in 2026.
Sorbs
Sorbs (Serbski lud), a West Slavic ethnic minority of about 60,000 in Lusatia, eastern Germany; smallest Slavic group, speaking Upper and Lower Sorbian, concentrated in Saxony and Brandenburg.
Sorbus
Sorbus L. (rowans, whitebeams, service trees) is a Rosaceae genus of temperate Northern Hemisphere trees and shrubs; type species S. aucuparia, polyphyletic in the broad sense, split into several genera, with apomixis and polyploidy driving its many microspecies.
Sorbus aucuparia
Sorbus aucuparia, rowan or European mountain ash, is a Rosaceae tree native from Europe to Iran and East Asia, with white corymbs and orange-red berries, widely planted, least concern, fireblight-susceptible.