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Yuga

American  
[yoog-uh] / ˈjʊg ə /

noun

Hinduism.
  1. an age of time.

  2. any of four ages, the Satya, the Treta, the Dvapara, and the Kali, each worse than the last, forming a cycle due to begin again when the Kali has come to an end.


Yuga British  
/ ˈjʊɡə /

noun

  1. (in Hindu cosmology) one of the four ages of mankind, together lasting over 4 million years and marked by a progressive decline in the vitality and morals of men

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of Yuga

Borrowed into English from Sanskrit around 1775–85


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Last month Yuga Labs - the creators of the talismanic Bored Ape NFTs - announced an unspecified number of redundancies.

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2023

Yuga Labs, the creator of the NFT franchise Bored Ape Yacht Club, has filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against the artist Ryder Ripps, accusing him of copying its imagery.

From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2023

On Tuesday, Bloomberg reported that the Securities and Exchange Commission is conducting a private probe into Yuga Labs, the crypto juggernaut behind the bizarre, once-seemingly-ubiquitous Bored Ape Yacht Club.

From Slate ● Oct. 12, 2022

Sam Curry, an engineer with Yuga Labs who also communicated with the hacker, said there was no indication that the hacker had done any damage or was interested in anything more than publicity.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 16, 2022

A day's rations, carefully spent, would carry him the two day's march to the Yuga.

From The Snowshoe Trail by Edison Marshall

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