cu
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cumulus.
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Etymology
Origin of Cu
From the Latin word cuprum
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And don’t necessarily consider it a theater, either, although its current programming includes a Cirque cu Soleil favorite.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2024
Typically, the noodles in this dish, called cu chao mian, are thick, chewy and wheaty, and they give the simply seasoned stir-fry much of its appeal.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 2, 2024
Automobile secured, we spent the afternoon in the drizzle wandering old Bucharest and stumbled into the Caru cu Bere restaurant in the district of Lipscani.
From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2017
Since then, more than 90,000 cu m have come to rest here from around the US.
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2014
She hopes it isn’t the start of Dead Butt Syndrome—tendonitis in the cu, basically—something Coach Kwan warned them about.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
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“Together we unite to build a world of peace and happiness and no war,” Cu added.
From Seattle Times ● May 7, 2024
Specifically, Suzuki and his colleagues performed simulations on 42 combinations of β-MIGaO2, MI = Na, Li, Cu, Ag as precursors, and halides and nitrates as ion sources.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 19, 2024
In the lab, Wu and Shaknov used it to bombard a sheet of copper with deuterons, generating an unstable isotope, Cu 64, as a source of positrons—the antimatter.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 16, 2023
In the case of Cr and Cu, we find that half-filled and completely filled subshells apparently represent conditions of preferred stability.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
But the King, Conor MacNessa, said, That’s all very well for you, Cu, but the men of Ireland don’t want to be lonely in the far reaches of the night.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
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Casadaban is currently leading two clinical trials at CU Anschutz.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 23, 2026
“I like to think I can think for myself,” CU Denver graduate Masse said.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026
Also here is a 1934 Chrysler Airflow Series CU Sedan, featuring a teardrop design first introduced by aeronautical automobile pioneer Paul Jaray, who designed Zeppelins before turning to automobiles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026
Local convenience store chain CU launched its Dubai chewy rice cake in October, and has sold some 1.8 million pieces of it in the last few months.
From BBC ● Jan. 14, 2026
Then: CU of the pad in front of him.
From "Monster" by Walter Dean Myers
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Energy Information Administration more than doubled its estimates of recoverable domestic shale-gas resources to 827 trillion cu. ft.
From Time ● Mar. 31, 2011
During a December 2007 conference call with investors, Engelder estimated the recoverable amount of natural gas in the Marcellus at 50 trillion cu. ft.
From Time ● Mar. 31, 2011
Wholesale natural gas sells for about $1.50 per 1,000 cu. ft., the equivalent of $9 per bbl. for oil.
From Time Magazine Archive
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More than 211 million cu. yds. of earth and rock were moved to unite the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
From Time Magazine Archive
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“Cutting out, my cu. Agnelli Curse,” she says to the dead air of the phone.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
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O. N. þrefi, a number of sheaves, Dan. trave, Sw. trafwe, twenty sheaves of grain, M. E. þrāve, a bundle, a number, Cu. threve, threeav.
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by George Tobias Flom
Cu. sop, "a milk-maid's cushion for the head."
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by George Tobias Flom
In Cu. a capper is one who excels.
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by George Tobias Flom
Cu. dozent, stupefied, and Mansie Wauch, 207, 24, dozing, whirling, sprawling.
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by George Tobias Flom
In Cu. a pen is said to sprent when it scatters the ink over the paper.
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by George Tobias Flom
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