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.

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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

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Gur

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

Fal’s Gur said that as the startup began selling to corporate customers, who require more individualized attention, it realized it needed to bulk up its sales team.

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 received the award in 2011, the year it was created.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 26, 2023

Whenever Holden or Nute expressed a wish to go to England, the natives would say to them,— Gur zah beeto Inglish bah?

From A Narrative of the Shipwreck, Captivity and Sufferings of Horace Holden and Benj. H. Nute Who were cast away in the American ship Mentor, on the Pelew Islands, in the year 1832; and for two years afterwards were subjected to unheard of sufferings among the barbarous inhabitants of Lord North's island by Horace Holden