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Bùi Thị Xuân

Bùi Thị Xuân (裴氏春, died 1802) was a Vietnamese female general of the Tây Sơn rebellion and the only woman made a Đô đốc under that dynasty.

Bui Tuong Phong

Bui Tuong Phong (Bùi Tường Phong, 1942–1975) was a Vietnamese-born computer graphics researcher who created the Phong reflection model and Phong shading at the University of Utah.

Bùi Xuân Phái

Bùi Xuân Phái (1920–1988) was a Vietnamese painter, one of the "four pillars" of modern Vietnamese art, best known for his oil paintings of Hanoi's Old Quarter, the "Phố Phái" style.

Buick

Buick is an American automobile marque founded by David Dunbar Buick in 1903, now a General Motors division whose largest market by far is China, with roughly 80 percent of global sales.

Buick Centurion

The Buick Centurion is the name of a 1956 concept car shown at the GM Motorama with a rear-view television camera, and a sporty full-size Buick sold from 1971 to 1973.

Buick Century

The Buick Century was a mid-size car built by General Motors' Buick division from 1936 to 2005, best known as a family-oriented, front-wheel-drive sedan sold alongside the Regal.

Buick Electra

The Buick Electra was a full-size luxury car produced by General Motors' Buick division from 1959 through 1990, serving as Buick's flagship model for over three decades.

Buick Electra L7

The Buick Electra L7 (别克至境L7) is a mid-to-large luxury sedan built by SAIC-GM for China, the first model of Buick's Electra new energy sub-brand, launched in September 2025.

Buick Enclave

The Buick Enclave is a three-row midsize crossover SUV built by General Motors since 2007, the largest Buick, made at the Lansing Delta Township plant in Michigan.

Buick Encore GX

The Buick Encore GX is a subcompact crossover SUV sold by Buick in North America since 2020, the brand's best-selling model with turbo three-cylinder engines.

Buick Envision

The Buick Envision is a five-passenger compact luxury crossover SUV built by General Motors, sold in China since 2014 and in North America since 2016.

Buick LaCrosse

The Buick LaCrosse is a Buick sedan sold by General Motors from 2005, replacing the Century and Regal, and continuing in China after leaving North America in 2019.

Buick LeSabre

The Buick LeSabre is a full-size car built by General Motors' Buick division from 1959 through 2005, named after Harley Earl's 1951 GM Le Sabre concept and renamed the Lucerne in 2006.

Buick Lucerne

The Buick Lucerne was a full-size front-wheel-drive luxury sedan built by General Motors for 2006 through 2011, replacing the LeSabre and Park Avenue as Buick's flagship car.

Buick Park Avenue

The Buick Park Avenue is a full-size luxury sedan Buick sold in the US from 1991 to 2005, later revived in China from 2007 to 2012.

Buick Regal

Buick Regal: GM mid-size nameplate since 1973, from G-body personal luxury coupe and turbo Grand National/GNX to Opel Insignia-based Sportback/TourX; discontinued in North America after 2020, relaunched in China July 2023.

Buick Rendezvous

The Buick Rendezvous is a mid-size crossover SUV produced by Buick from 2002 through 2007, Buick's first crossover, built in Mexico on a minivan platform shared with the Pontiac Aztek.

Buick Riviera

The Buick Riviera is a personal luxury coupe produced by General Motors' Buick division from 1963 through 1999, which sold more than 1.1 million cars in the United States.

Buick Roadmaster

The Buick Roadmaster, also known as the Series 80, is a full-size Buick built in three eras, from 1936 to 1958 and again from 1991 to 1996.

Buick Skyhawk

The Buick Skyhawk was a compact car sold by General Motors' Buick division in two generations, from 1975 to 1980 and 1982 to 1989, with a turbocharged T-Type.

Buick Skylark

The Buick Skylark was a nameplate used by General Motors' Buick division for distinct model lines between 1953 and 1998, from the 1953 anniversary convertible through front-wheel-drive compacts.

Buick Special

The Buick Special (Buick Series 40) was Buick's entry-level series from 1936, most famous for the 1961–1963 compact with America's first mass-produced American car's first V-6 engine.

Buick V6 engine

The Buick V6, first sold as the Fireball V6 and later the 3800, is a 90-degree V6 engine built by Buick from 1962 to 2008.

Buick V8 engine

The Buick V8 engine is a family of V8s built by Buick from 1953 to 1980, including the Nailhead, an all-aluminum 215, and the muscle-car 455 big block.

Buick Verano

The Buick Verano is a compact luxury sedan produced by General Motors for the 2012 through 2017 model years, built in Michigan and praised for its quiet cabin.

Build-A-Bear Workshop

Build-A-Bear Workshop is an American specialty retailer, founded in 1997 by Maxine Clark, where guests stuff, dress, and name their own teddy bears, with over 660 stores worldwide.

Build-up method

The build-up method estimates a company's cost of equity by adding risk premiums to a risk-free rate, used mainly for private companies where beta cannot be measured.

Build–operate–transfer

Build–operate–transfer (BOT) is a project financing arrangement in which a private company builds and operates an infrastructure project for a concession period, then transfers it back to the government.

Builder pattern

The Builder pattern is a creational design pattern in which a separate builder object assembles a complex object step by step, from the 1994 Gang of Four book.

Builder.ai collapse

The Builder.ai collapse was the 2025 bankruptcy of Builder.ai, a startup selling custom software through AI, after its board found revenue inflated by hundreds of millions of dollars.