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Yao
1[ you ]
noun
- a legendary emperor of China who, with his successor Shun, was a paragon of good government.
Yao
2[ you ]
noun
- a member of an Indigenous people of Malawi, Mozambique, and Tanzania.
- the Bantu language spoken by the Yao.
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Yao and her colleagues stamped a series of grooves onto one side of each noodle.
Pasta aficionados “are very picky about the shapes of pasta and how they pair with different sauces,” says Yao, who studies the design of smart materials at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
Yao and colleagues stamped a series of grooves onto one side of each noodle.
The new device has the potential to be a major innovation in renewable energy, Yao says.
Lovley told Yao about bacteria that make nanostrands of protein.
At a press conference in March, Yao said, “Buying ivory is the same as buying a bullet.”
“The element of adding a foreigner is not quite a clown show or circus type of act, but it does have a novelty effect,” says Yao.
Sora's Chinese name has more than 41 million page hits on Google, exceeding that of Mao Zedong, Yao Ming, or Confucius.
Now, if he can just win over his communist bosses, he'll be the biggest thing since Yao Ming.
When Shun had all below heaven he chose Kao-yao from the many, lifted him up, and the men without love fled.
Even Yao and Shun were still struggling to become better, and so bring peace to all men.
There could be no mistaking the red Lang-Yao whose brilliant tints kindled in the candle-glow.
Take, for instance, the great inundation placed by the historic books of China in the reign of Yao.
It is only since the middle of the 19th century that the Yao language has conquered territory to the south of Lake Nyasa.
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