Yao
1 Americannoun
noun
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a member of an Indigenous people of Malawi, Mozambique, and Tanzania.
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the Bantu language spoken by the Yao.
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Inflationary pressures eased in May, with input and output price inflation slowing for the first time in six and seven months, respectively, said Yao Yu, founder at RatingDog.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026
"In the fields of physics, chemistry, biology and materials science, many important phenomena happen incredibly fast," said research team leader Yunhua Yao from East China Normal University.
From Science Daily • Apr. 21, 2026
“The stated minimum is often a signal, not a hard rule,” said Rui Yao, a professor of personal financial planning at the University of Missouri.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 10, 2026
Mr. Ariosto also conducts informative interviews with Yao Song, a Chinese space entrepreneur, and Xue Suijian, a former high-ranking space official in the Chinese government, that provide glimpses into the opaque world of Chinese rocketry.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
He sent Yao for abombelt capsules again, and he returned with a handful of blue-and-white ones in a plastic sachet with no writing.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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