Ru
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Rugby Union
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Burundi (international car registration)
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Northern Ireland drag queen Elle Vosque has taken second place in the series seven final of Ru Paul's Drag Race UK.
From BBC ● Nov. 27, 2025
Tayce, from Newport in south Wales, reached the final of Ru Paul's Drag Race UK in 2020 and is now setting his sights on a festive glitterball trophy.
From BBC ● Dec. 24, 2024
For the record, Peterson’s Cher impersonation rivals Ru Paul’s; Elvira is a drag queen after all.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2024
With “Drag Race” firmly ensconced in American pop culture, Mama Ru — that’s RuPaul Charles to the general public — has been busy expanding the reality competition series worldwide.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2024
I walk to the closest barrel next to an empty pod, its orange flashing button highlighting Fu, Jie Ru over and over.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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Mark: You chose RU Mine as the Arctics' big song.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2023
RU Argentina, an organization that assists Russians in Argentina, proclaims on its website.
From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 2023
Some investors are active in online discussion groups like the RU GDR/ADR Community on the Discord platform as they try to navigate the situation.
From Reuters ● Oct. 13, 2022
GILRTUY> RU GILTY: Opening question in trials of the future, when the overburdened justice system tries all misdemeanors with plea bargains by text: RU GILTY?
From Washington Post ● Mar. 12, 2020
Women using RU 486 miscarry at home, and not on a schedule.
From Time ● Feb. 19, 2015
Therefore, ru × rv is not zero for any choice of u and v in the parameter domain, and the parameterization is smooth.
From Textbooks ● Mar. 30, 2016
Notice that ru = 〈 0, 0, 0 〉 and rv = 〈 0, −sin v, 0 〉 , and the corresponding cross product is zero.
From Textbooks ● Mar. 30, 2016
He can also bend classic European spring flavors in his direction, tossing asparagus, morels and peas with ricotta gnocchi that receive a whiff of Gorgonzola from doufu ru, fermented tofu.
From New York Times ● May 12, 2015
Guillen, left off postseason roster because of neck injury, has been noticeably absent during this ru n.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 24, 2010
"Ruma" was really a magician, or whisperer, from ru, to murmur, and in olden times runes, or mystical secrets, were carved exclusively on the Mountain Ash tree in Scandinavia and the British Isles.
From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by Fernie, William Thomas
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