Kure
Americannoun
noun
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“A lot of them aren’t motivated by material things,” Kure said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2025
Paralympic and two-time world champion Bonnie Bunyau Gustin of Malaysia won the gold medal, while Nigeria's Innocent Nnamdi was awarded bronze over team-mate Thomas Kure after the pair both finished level on 132.5 points.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2022
But he and other fishermen in Kure, in Kochi prefecture in southwest Japan, have seen something worrying in the past two years - an unprecedented number of unusually fatty katsuo.
From Reuters ● Jul. 12, 2022
John G. Talbot etched their names in a hatch of their makeshift rescue vessel as they sailed from remote Kure Atoll in the mid-Pacific Ocean.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 10, 2020
It was a lesson she’d forgotten in her early days in America, but with time she had rediscovered it as something worthy passed down from her grandmother in Kure.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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