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Annapurna

American  
[an-uh-poor-nuh, -pur-] / ˌæn əˈpʊər nə, -ˈpɜr- /
Or Anapurna

noun

  1. Hinduism. Devi.

  2. a mountain in northern Nepal, in the Himalayas. 26,503 feet (8,078 meters).


Annapurna British  
/ ˌænəˈpʊənə /

noun

  1. a massif of the Himalayas, in Nepal. Highest peak: 8078 m (26 502 ft)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Bshara, a co-founder of AWS’s in-house chip unit Annapurna Labs, said most of the tens of millions of AWS Graviton cores will be located in the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 24, 2026

The first version of Trainium took about 18 months to create, while the second generation was readied in nine months and Annapurna is "trying to maintain that pace", Carroll said.

From Barron's Feb. 27, 2026

In 2018, he shepherded a major reorganization of Annapurna after the company stumbled into hundreds of millions in losses amid several box office misfires.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 6, 2025

Above, Nima at the Mount Annapurna base camp in March.

From NewsForKids.net Oct. 24, 2024

In 1984, during an expedition to Nepal’s Annapurna massif, he’d picked up a gastrointestinal parasite, Entamoeba histolytica, which he was unable to entirely purge from his body over the years that followed.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

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