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Etymology
Origin of Cu
From the Latin word cuprum
Example Sentences
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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
A new assessment from Europe's CryoSat spacecraft shows Greenland to be losing about 375 cu km of ice each year.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 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
“When we were fighting, we were enemies. But now, we shake hands with them,” said another 94-year-old veteran, Pham Duc Cu, who commanded an artillery company during the battle.
From Seattle Times ● May 7, 2024
Then, the researchers used a rapid thermal annealing process to form dewetted Cu nanoparticles with optimal size and distribution.
From Science Daily ● May 3, 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
Ninety percent of the work force of Pouyuen Vietnam has returned to Ho Chi Minh City, according to Cu Phat Nghiep, the chairman of the company’s trade union.
From New York Times ● Nov. 12, 2021
Most of them were going to some place called Cu Chi.
From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers
“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
Co-authors of the study include Amit Bhardwaj, Blaise Fleury, Eldo Abraham and Taewoo Lee, all postdoctoral research associates in the Department of Physics at CU Boulder.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 13, 2025
Then: CU of the pad in front of him.
From "Monster" by Walter Dean Myers
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
Energy Information Administration more than doubled its estimates of recoverable domestic shale-gas resources to 827 trillion cu. ft.
From Time ● Mar. 31, 2011
Nimitz and twelve other ships; the project will require displacement of more than 1 million cu. yds. of sediment, with unknown ecological consequences.
From Time Magazine Archive
More than 211 million cu. yds. of earth and rock were moved to unite the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
From Time Magazine Archive
“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
Cu. wills, doubts, "Aaz i' wills whether to gang or nit."
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by Flom, George Tobias
Cu. claggy, adhesive, clog, to stick to, O. E. clæg, from which N. Eng. clay.
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by Flom, George Tobias
Cu. sop, "a milk-maid's cushion for the head."
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by Flom, George Tobias
O. N. verr, worse, Norse verr, verre, Dan. værre, Sw. värr, Cu. waar.
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by Flom, George Tobias
Cu. ram, strong, and rammish, violent, and American slang rambunktious, obstreperous.
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by Flom, George Tobias
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