How to Use kuru in a Sentence

kuru

noun
  • But, when kuru deaths continued, there were doubts that the men had told the truth, and the meetings stopped.
    — Rachel Aviv, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026
  • For a time, the Fore held almost daily mass meetings to try to ban kuru sorcery.
    — Rachel Aviv, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026
  • His grandmother had already died of kuru, a disease that mostly afflicted women and children.
    — Rachel Aviv, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Luwi said that, after kuru ended, the first person in his village to be targeted as a sorcerer was his uncle Koiye.
    — Rachel Aviv, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026
  • This tension between reality and artifice brings out the best in kuru’s songwriting.
    — Jude Noel, Pitchfork, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Adjacent to his work on kuru, Gajdusek was also experimenting on the children of the highlands.
    — David Remnick, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026
  • If the sound of kuru’s latest solo album, Backstage hologram, is any indication, the influence goes both ways.
    — Jude Noel, Pitchfork, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The kuru epidemic had ended, but premature deaths continued; according to one count, one in eight children in the eastern highlands died before the age of five.
    — Rachel Aviv, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Lindenbaum and her husband began to suspect that kuru was somehow transmitted through cannibalism.
    — Rachel Aviv, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Gajdusek eventually learned, through experiments with chimpanzees, that kuru was transmitted via a mourning ritual that involved eating the flesh of the dead.
    — David Remnick, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Luwi and the other highland boys sometimes attended Gajdusek’s lectures about kuru, and Luwi sensed that their presence gave him more credibility.
    — Rachel Aviv, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Gajdusek lived in Papua New Guinea while researching kuru, a fatal brain disease that existed only in the country’s eastern highlands.
    — Rachel Aviv, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026
  • The kuru experiments, which won Gajdusek the Nobel Prize in 1976, put him in a position in which people around him rarely said no.
    — Rachel Aviv, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026
  • By the nineties, Gajdusek’s lab had infected hundreds of animals with neurological diseases that resembled kuru.
    — Rachel Aviv, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Gajdusek decided to test whether kuru could be infectious, too, a compelling possibility given the Fore’s mortuary rituals.
    — Rachel Aviv, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026
  • For a late breakfast or early lunch, meander over to Mimar Sinan, one of several nearby restaurants specializing in kuru fasülye, white beans stewed in olive oil and tomato sauce and served with rice pilaf.
    — Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Dec. 2018
  • As colonial administrators and missionaries had penetrated the highlands, the practice of cannibalism had ended and kuru had begun to recede.
    — Rachel Aviv, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Gajdusek had come to the idea of injecting animals after a veterinary pathologist noticed that the brains of kuru patients resembled those of sheep with scrapie, a fatal neurological disease transmitted through exposure to infected tissues.
    — Rachel Aviv, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Backstage hologram continues to sharpen the edges of kuru’s music, with punchier low end and brattier energy that occasionally resembles the moshpit-ready rage rap pushed by contemporaries like Prettifun and Nettspend.
    — Jude Noel, Pitchfork, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The record hits hard out of the gate, opening with a suite of kuru’s meanest-sounding tracks to date, establishing the artist as an unusually jaded 20-year-old who sounds older than their age, in the specific way the internet’s ceaseless discourse and rapid cultural production accelerates time.
    — Jude Noel, Pitchfork, 30 Apr. 2026
  • When kuru’s vocals get more monotone, Backstage hologram ornaments the toplines with gorgeous digital keyboard parts that reference the crusty, low-res soundtracks of Nintendo DS-era RPGs like Pokemon Diamond & Pearl.
    — Jude Noel, Pitchfork, 30 Apr. 2026

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