Cruz

[krooz, krooth]

noun

1. San Juan de la John of the Cross, Saint.

2. Juana Inés de la 1651–95, Mexican nun, scholar, and poet.

Example Sentences

The project involved an international collaboration that included scientists from the Space Science and Engineering Initiative at the University of Hawai'i, the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, the California Institute of Technology, the University of Arizona, the Astrobiology Center in Japan, the Paris Observatory, the University of Central Florida, the University of Sydney, and the University of California Santa Cruz.

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It’s been two years since a Santa Cruz sea otter, known as 841, garnered international attention and celebrity by attacking surfers and their surfboards as the human wave-riders alley-ooped over the waves of the legendary Steamer Lane.

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On Thursday afternoon, roughly three dozen surfers were lined up to catch waves at Steamer Lane — just below the Santa Cruz coastline’s cliffs near the city’s iconic lighthouse and surfer statue.

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However, possibly due to the federal government shutdown, the agency did not respond to questions about the surfing-curious otter in Santa Cruz.

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Laughlin said the state agency had no plans “to intervene with the sea otter currently interacting with humans in Santa Cruz.”

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