Kure
Americannoun
noun
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“They get anchored to a number on a screen,” said Tony Kure, a Cleveland-based certified financial planner.
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
In Kure, a district in Nakatosa town, many fishermen have gone out of business in the past three decades, said Takahiro Tanaka, a fourth-generation owner of a fishmonger who calls himself a "katsuo sommelier".
From Reuters • Jul. 12, 2022
But the captain, Montgomery Sicard, wanted to survey the treacherous reefs around the uninhabited Kure Atoll, then known as Ocean Island, about 60 miles west.
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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