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• Kung
  Kung

  noun

  a member of a San people of the Kalahari desert basin of southern Africa.
• Küng
  Küng

  noun

  Hans, 1928–2021, Swiss Roman Catholic theologian and writer: critic of papal authority.

Kung

¹ American  

[koong] / kʊŋ /

Or !Kung

noun

• Kungs,
  plural
• Kung
  plural

1. a member of a San people of the Kalahari desert basin of southern Africa.

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Kung ² American  

[koong, goong] / kʊŋ, gʊŋ /

noun

1. H. H. K'ung Hsiang-hsiKong Xiangxi, 1881–1967, Chinese financier and statesman.

2. Prince, 1833–98, Chinese statesman of the late Ch'ing dynasty.

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Küng ³ American  

[koong, kyng] / kʊŋ, küŋ /

noun

1. Hans, 1928–2021, Swiss Roman Catholic theologian and writer: critic of papal authority.

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Küng British  

/ kʊŋ /

noun

1. Hans. born 1928, Swiss Roman Catholic theologian, who questioned the doctrine of infallibility: his licence to teach was withdrawn in 1979. His books include Global Responsibility (1991)

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Noun Inflected Forms

• Kung
  plural
• Kungs
  plural

Example Sentences

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Time trial specialist Stefan Kung of Switzerland won the 32.5km stage from El Puerto de Santa Maria to Jerez de la Frontera, three seconds ahead of Great Britain's Callum Thornley.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

Unitree had previously drawn significant attention during China's annual Spring Festival gala performance, with its dexterous robots, wearing traditional Chinese vests, seen performing Kung Fu and jumping over tables.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

Serve your Dino Kung Pao over a bed of warm jasmine rice and top with roasted peanuts and chopped green onions.

From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2026

“This is about as permanent a ban as we can get,” said Steven Kung, co-founder of the group No Data Center Monterey Park.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026

The smell of Kung Pao chicken rose up from the plate and suddenly I realized that I was starving.

From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben

Indeed, after taking up a post at Tübingen University, in southern Germany, in 1966, he became a close friend of the leading liberal theologian, Hans Küng.

From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2022

Küng, who brought Ratzinger to Tübingen, would later be barred from teaching by his former colleague, after he rejected papal infallibility.

From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2022

Here’s Pierre Rolland celebrating as he overtakes Stefan Küng in a time trial ... never mind the fact that he’s en voiture -

From The Guardian ● Jul. 17, 2021

Pomerol, Lussac and Saint Émilion all feature along the route and riders such as Stefan Küng and Wout van Aert will be giving everything to deny Pogacar a second ITT victory of the race.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 17, 2021

“There are no unreformable areas of the Church,” Dr. Küng once said, “because the divine and immutable is nowhere except embodied in the human and mutable.”

From Washington Post ● Apr. 9, 2021

Throughout the week, the 32-year-old phenom released several remixes of the self-loathing lead single “Anti-Hero,” featuring the Bleachers, Roosevelt, Kungs, Jayda G and an acoustic version.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2022

For a while, the Kungs reigned as one of the richest and allegedly most corrupt families in the country.

From New York Times ● Oct. 29, 2019

"We must rip aside the iron curtain of the Soongs and Kungs," he railed.

From Time Magazine Archive

One answers: 'They still respect and support the Generalissimo, but some members of his family, such as the Soongs and Kungs, aren't so good.

From Time Magazine Archive