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Wu

[ woo ]

noun

  1. a dynasty that ruled in China a.d. 222–80.
  2. a Chinese language having several dialects, spoken widely in Anhwei, Chekiang, and Kiangsu provinces and including the dialect of Shanghai.


Wu

1

/ wuː /

noun

  1. WuHarry1937MChinesePOLITICS: human-rights campaigner Harry, real name Wu Hongda. born 1937, Chinese dissident and human-rights campaigner, a US citizen from 1994: held in labour camps (1960–79); exiled to the US in 1985 but returned secretly to document forced labour in Chinese prisons


Wu

2

/ wuː /

noun

  1. a group of dialects of Chinese spoken around the Yangtze delta

Wu

/ wo̅o̅ /

  1. Chinese-born American physicist. Research with her colleagues on electron emission in the decay of radioactive elements showed that parity symmetry, long thought to hold for all physical laws, is in fact violated; the decay processes displayed odd parity, essentially entailing that nature distinguishes between right-handed and left-handed processes.


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Before Norwest, Wu worked in Amazon’s corporate development team, Bessemer Venture Partners and founded BANZAI, which brought food focused on quality and nutrition to schools.

For their paper, Makridis and Wu used a social capital index previously developed by the Congressional Joint Economic Committee.

One was that, as Wu’s team had seen, the disease was spreading about twice as fast as SARS had.

It’s an issue that plagues many founders—and is one Wu intimately understands.

From Fortune

Wu, who had also worked on the Manhattan Project, proved that wasn’t the case.

From Ozy

But, keeping Wu Tun and his t-shirts in mind, how serious is Jack Ma about putting customers first?

In the eyes of Wu, the test should already be out in the field, despite a lack of 100 percent proof.

Do you have a favorite Wu-Tang memory—any crazy shenanigans you got into?

Who would picture Wu-Tang doing slapstick comedy in primetime on Fox?

Wu answered one about whether he would prefer to fight 100 “duck-sized Gov. Cuomos, or one Gov. Cuomo-sized duck.”

With great deliberation and much formality Wu-pom Nai proceeded to loosen the boy's heavy plaits of hair.

She'd think as little of coaxing a woman's husband from her, as she wu'd of shooting a thief like a doorg.

Between us and the distant cliffs are the strangely carved and pinnacled rocks of the Toom pin wu-near Tu-weap.

With an army capable in size and invincible in determination, the ever-victorious Wu Sien is marching to your aid.

At that moment Wu Chi was being confronted by his wife, who stood before him in his inner chamber.

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