Lu
noun
a male or female given name, form of Lou.
Lu
1 American
[loo]
/ lu /
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Lu
2
American
Symbol, Chemistry.
LU
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British
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Lu
2
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lu
3
British
abbreviation
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On July 17, 709 BCE, observers at the court of the Lu Duchy witnessed a total solar eclipse.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026
“I doubt that we could remove every cultural tendency from a model, because language and culture are deeply intertwined,” Lu told me.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026
“When we look at aging, people talk about living longer. But we should be talking about living longer without disease,” Lu Qi, lead author of the study and professor at Tulane University, told Marketwatch.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
Yang Lu of Tapestry told me people are adopting agentic commerce much more slowly than other AI consumer tools.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
"Man, he ain't gon' say nothin'. He ain't even gon' look your way. Probably at home right now still crying about getting smoked on Saturday," Lu followed.
From "Patina" by Jason Reynolds
RMT General Secretary Eddie Dempsey said: "Fatigue and extreme shift rotations are serious issues impacting on our members health and wellbeing- all of which have not been adequately addressed for years by LU management."
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2025
These are delightful deep cuts, but he biggest seller on extension765.com is a soft, black, vintage-inspired, cotton T-shirt designed by Joanna Bush with 18 LU 13 printed in bold white letters.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 20, 2023
The consortia that ran LU were just too powerful.
From Slate ● Sep. 24, 2022
"We raised his rent some to cover the investment. LU then sold it to Ben," one senior university official told the publication.
From Fox News ● Sep. 10, 2020
Such quiet tones after a day of shouts and HA LE LU DAs.
From "Inside Out and Back Again" by Thanhha Lai
Shortly before he took office in January 2025, the Chinese government and official media began using a different Chinese character for "lu" to represent the first syllable in his surname.
From Barron's ● May 12, 2026
Xiaohongshu, a shopping and lifestyle recommendations app, says searches for "lu chong", which translates to "land surfboard", rose by 50 times in June from a year earlier.
From Reuters ● Jul. 18, 2022
Whether thit ko, lu rou fan, tau eu bah or endless variations upon stewed pork belly, similar ideas of comfort live in the plastic borders between us.
From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2022
The pickled mustard greens were the perfect companions to the sweet, fatty pieces of shredded pork belly on the lu rou fan.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 27, 2021
Very true, and yet I find that Wedekind is "literary," that he could exclaim with Stephan Mallarmé: "La chair est triste, hélas! et j'ai lu tous les livres."
From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by James Huneker
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