du

¹ American  

[doo, dyoo, dy] / du, dyu, dü /

1. (in names of French derivation) a contraction of de and the article le:

   Joachim du Bellay.

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Du. ² American  

abbreviation

1. Duke.

2. Dutch.

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Du. ¹ British  

abbreviation

1. Duke

2. Dutch

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DU ² British  

abbreviation

1. depleted uranium

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Example Sentences

“A 2% increase is quite sizable when the baseline is close to 5%,” says Katherine Du, an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee’s Lubar School of Business and one of the paper’s authors.

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“Reappropriating a comment that accuses the brand of sexism or delivering poor customer service is unlikely to be an effective strategy,” says Du, adding that reappropriation seems to work best when the negative comment itself seems grouchy or unreasonable.

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Now, he dons a sturgeon costume and gets speared by children during the Sturgeon Spectacular in nearby Fond du Lac.

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Times of froth tend to see companies linked to the theme du jour—internet, 3-D printing, electric vehicles, crypto, AI, etc.—lead the charts.

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The boat, carrying several former British military officers and four Chagossian men, set sail from Sri Lanka and took nearly two weeks to arrive, anchoring Monday morning about 150 yards offshore from the Île du Coin, a half-square-mile island.

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