dure
1 Americanadjective
verb (used with or without object)
Etymology
Origin of dure1
1325–75; Middle English < Middle French < Latin dūrus hard
Origin of dure2
1225–75; Middle English < Old French durer < Latin dūrāre to last; see dure 1
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How long the relationship can en dure will depend not on U.S. wishes but Japan's own self-interest.
From Time Magazine Archive
Most elaborate of all were the pietre dure designs--fantastically elaborate inlays of jasper, lapis lazuli, serpentine and all manner of semiprecious stones, sawed into thin sheets and assembled as a jigsaw by gem cutters.
From Time Magazine Archive
“As the saying goes, ‘No hay mal que dure cien años.’”
From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar
Brecð nafre eft crist helle dure for lesen hem of bende Nis na sullic þech hom bo wa ⁊ hom bo uneade.
From Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts by Joseph Hall
Lady Hautton asked, smiling that acidulated smile with which that amiable saint always puts long questions to you of which she knows the answer would be peine forte et dure.
From Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories by Ouida
The seventy interpreters say that this first age dured two thousand two hundred and forty-four years.
From Bible Stories and Religious Classics by Philip P. Wells
And on the sleepers fell a wondrous dream, That dured till sunrise, filling all the cells Remotest of the throbbing heart and brain.
From A Hidden Life and Other Poems by George MacDonald
Sir, said Dinadan, and in Surluse, at that tournament that Galahalt of the Long Isles made, the which there dured seven days, was as great a gathering as is here, for there were many nations.
From Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 2 by Sir Thomas Malory
So that nothing thou may take from us, but our good peace, that always hath dured among us.
From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville
And than dured Cristendom bezonde the zee, alle Turkye, Surrye, Tartarie, Jerusalem, Palestyne, Arabye, Halappee, and alle the lond of Egypte.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 09 Asia, Part II by Richard Hakluyt
Frankie Muniz was taken to a hospital after a crash during practice at Daytona International Speedway ahead of the Team Air Force at Ford’s Veterans Day Classic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026
Many of the council art collections are still growing and only 10 councils actively disposed of any of the art they own during the past six financial years.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026
"If you want to regain security, you need to regain control of the territory... that isn't achieved just with a heavy hand, by bombing," he said during the presentation of an Ombudsman report.
From Barron's ● Nov. 11, 2026
His departure would bring down the curtain on an era during which he stoked the global artificial-intelligence boom and became a geopolitical star.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026
It was during this preinspection lineup one morning that I saw what I had till then refused to believe.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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