cu
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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
Natural gas production has held up relatively well despite the conflict, averaging about 520m cubic feet per day in the first half of 2014, compared with 840m cu ft/day in 2011.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 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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“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
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
Adams was overwhelmed when they arrived at the 25th Infantry Division at Cu Chi, about twenty miles northwest of Saigon.
From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge
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“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
"SAWs devices are critical to the many of the world's most important technologies," said Eichenfield, senior author of the new study and Gustafson Endowed Chair in Quantum Engineering at CU Boulder.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 17, 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
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
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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. verr, worse, Norse verr, verre, Dan. værre, Sw. värr, Cu. waar.
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by Flom, George Tobias
Cu. sleck has further developed the umlaut ö to e.
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by Flom, George Tobias
Cu. skerr, a precipice. 59The fundamental idea is "something cut apart, standing by itself."
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by Flom, George Tobias
Cu. flaks, pieces of turf, is probably the same.
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by Flom, George Tobias
O. N. hnefi, Norse neve, hand, fist, Shetland nev, Cu. neif, neive, neef.
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by Flom, George Tobias
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