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Gur

American  
[goor] / gʊər /

noun

  1. a branch of the Niger-Congo subfamily of languages, including Mossi and other languages spoken in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Ivory Coast, and Mali.


Gur British  
/ ɡʊə /

noun

  1. Also called: Voltaic.  a small group of languages of W Africa, spoken chiefly in Burkina Faso and Ghana, forming a branch of the Niger-Congo family

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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“If you go back a year and half ago, we were definitely under-resourced, and what that does is you are not able to cater to the market demand,” Gur said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026

Gur, the CEO of Fal, which hosts multimodal generative AI models for developers, said he tracks revenue per head count.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026

In a fascinating Times of Israel podcast aired on Tuesday, several hours before the hostage deal was announced, Haviv Rettig Gur, the newspaper’s senior analyst, offered two explanations for the government’s hard-line position.

From Slate • Nov. 22, 2023

Gur said he and his colleagues knew that disaster was looming when three Jewish women arrived at Budapest’s main synagogue in the fall of 1943.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 26, 2023

Upon these mountains stands the impregnable castle of Gur Chitto, or Chitore, the chief seat of the Ranna, a very powerful rajah, whom neither the Patans, nor Akbar himself, was ever able to subdue.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 by Kerr, Robert

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