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cumulus.
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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
The USB device tracks an area of 8 cu ft for movement, and is capable of differentiating between fingers, thumbs and pencils.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2012
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
“Together we unite to build a world of peace and happiness and no war,” Cu added.
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
Researchers at the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering at CU Boulder believe this unusual combination of strength and reversibility could help inspire a new generation of engineered materials.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 15, 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
Producer prices at the wellhead have been in a free fall for months, plummeting last month to $1 per 1,000 cu. ft., down 23% from a year ago.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some residents contend that the removal of 2.7 million cu. yds. of contaminated sludge will harm the fishing industry, and have called for a full environmental-impact study before the digging begins.
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
Dan. mödding, older möghdyngh, O. N. mykidyngja, Sw. dial. mödding, Cu. middin.
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by George Tobias Flom
The amount of concrete in the building was 1,910 cu. yds., distributed as follows: Cu. yds.
From Concrete Construction Methods and Costs by Halbert Powers Gillette
Cu. skeatt exhibits regular i-fracture from older a.
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by George Tobias Flom
Cu. lakin, a child's toy. 51Lak, sb. contempt, reproach, disgrace.
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by George Tobias Flom
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
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