IU
American-
immunizing unit.
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Also I.U. international unit.
abbreviation
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immunizing unit
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international unit
Example Sentences
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The American Academy of Pediatrics advises 400 IU daily for infants.
From Science Daily • Apr. 28, 2026
“The IU football team, it’s a real team,” Hoosier quarterback Fernando Mendoza said after flattening the Niketown Waterfowl.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 2025
In a delightful bit of magical TV storytelling, K-pop superstar IU plays both the young adult Ae-sun and later her own grown daughter.
From Salon • Jun. 28, 2025
The two-and-a-half-hour show ended with a half-hour encore, during which IU scanned the crowd for fan-made signs of songs they wanted to hear.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 5, 2024
“I mean, it’s less than half of what IU would cost,” which was the state school a couple hours south of us in Bloomington.
From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green
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