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Wu

American  
[woo] / wu /

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 British  
/ wuː /

noun

  1. 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

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Wu 2 British  
/ wuː /

noun

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

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Wu Scientific  
/ 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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But China's Wu, 22, responded in stunning fashion to level the match at 4-4 by reeling off three consecutive frames thanks to a pair of half-centuries and a 122 break.

From BBC

“The reality is that advertising is the core business model of the internet as a whole,” said Andy Wu, an associate professor at Harvard Business School.

From Los Angeles Times

Oliver “Power” Grant, the close Wu-Tang Clan affiliate who oversaw the group’s enormously popular Wu Wear fashion line, has died.

From Los Angeles Times

In Boston, Mayor Michelle Wu closed all public schools and municipal buildings on Monday.

From Barron's

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said that public schools would be closed on Monday, while some school districts in Maryland and Delaware also had canceled classes.

From The Wall Street Journal

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