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cubic.
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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
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
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
Metals that crystallize in an HCP structure include Cd, Co, Li, Mg, Na, and Zn, and metals that crystallize in a CCP structure include Ag, Al, Ca, Cu, Ni, Pb, and Pt.
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
Casadaban is leading clinical trials at CU Anschutz aimed at learning more about the treatment.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 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
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
More than 211 million cu. yds. of earth and rock were moved to unite the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the course of five years workers excavated 3.7 million cu. yds. of rock and poured 4.4 million cu. yds. of concrete; the main arch of the dam towers 70 stories high.
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
The yardage was divided as follows: Cu. yds.
From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Halbert Powers Gillette
Cu. flaks, pieces of turf, is probably the same.
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by George Tobias Flom
The Cu. form drakt, drenched, wet, indicates a verb, drak.
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by George Tobias Flom
O. N. gymbr, a ewe lamb a year old, also gymbr-lamb, Norse gymber, Dan. gimber, M. E. gimbir, gimbyr, Cu. gimmer.
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by George Tobias Flom
In Cu. lug means "the handle of a pail."
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by George Tobias Flom
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