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Buprenorphine/naloxone
Buprenorphine/naloxone (Suboxone) is a sublingual combination medication for opioid use disorder, FDA-approved October 8, 2002; naloxone deters injection misuse, and methadone retains more patients but causes more serious adverse events.
Buprestidae
Buprestidae, jewel beetles or metallic wood-boring beetles, is a large beetle family with over 14,000 species, metallic structural coloration, wood-boring flat-headed larvae, and the invasive emerald ash borer among its pests.
Buprofezin
Buprofezin (Applaud), a thiadiazine insect growth regulator developed by Nihon Nohyaku in 1981, is the sole IRAC Group 16 chitin biosynthesis inhibitor, controlling nymphs of whiteflies, planthoppers, scales, and mealybugs; EU approval ends 2026.
Bupropion
Bupropion (Wellbutrin, Zyban) is an aminoketone antidepressant inhibiting norepinephrine and dopamine reuptake with no serotonergic activity, used for MDD, seasonal affective disorder prevention, and smoking cessation; seizure risk is dose-related.
Buquan coin
The Buquan coin (布泉) was a coin issued by Emperor Wu of Northern Zhou in 561, valued at one coin equal to five wuzhu and circulating alongside them.
Bur
A bur is a hooked seed or dry fruit that catches on animals' fur, feathers, or clothing to disperse seeds; burdock burrs inspired the hook-and-loop fastener.
Bur-Suen of Isin
Bur-Suen of Isin, also written Bur-Sin or Būr-Sîn, was a king of the First Dynasty of Isin in southern Mesopotamia who reigned about 1895–1874 BC, during the Isin-Larsa period.
Bura
Bura (Бура) is a Russian point-trick card game for two to six players, 36-card pack, three-card hands, multi-card leads; win by claiming 31 trick points or declaring a Bura of three trumps; related to Kozel.
Burabay Biosphere Reserve
Burabay Biosphere Reserve (Бурабай), a UNESCO MAB site in Akmola Region, Kazakhstan, designated 15 June 2022 on the basis of Burabay National Park; lake-studded forest-steppe with 277 vertebrate species and about 136,019 ha.
Burai-ha
Burai-ha (無頼派, "unprincipled school") is a group of Japanese writers, including Dazai Osamu, Sakaguchi Ango, and Oda Sakunosuke, who adopted an anti-establishment posture after Japan's 1945 surrender.
Burak Deniz
Burak Deniz (born 1991, Istanbul) is a Turkish actor known for Aşk Laftan Anlamaz, Bizim Hikaye, Şahmaran, Bambaşka Biri, and Sahtekarlar; some databases list 1989 as his birth year.
Burak Özçivit
Burak Özçivit (born 1984, Istanbul) is a Turkish actor, producer, and former model, known for Malkoçoğlu Bali Bey in Muhteşem Yüzyıl, Kemal Soydere in Emmy-winning Kara Sevda, and Osman Bey in Kuruluş: Osman (2019–2025).
Burak Yılmaz
Burak Yılmaz (born 1985, Antalya), Turkish striker and later coach; 33-goal 2011-12 Süper Lig season, two Galatasaray titles, Lille's 2020-21 Ligue 1 title, 73 Turkey caps, 31 goals; now Arca Çorum FK head coach.
Buraka Som Sistema
Buraka Som Sistema is a Portuguese electronic music group from Lisbon, formed in 2006, that fused Angolan kuduro with club music and founded the label Enchufada.
Burako
Burako is the Argentine tile version of the card game Buraco, a Canasta-family rummy for two or four players who meld numbered tiles into canastas of seven or more, using dead pots and bonus scoring.
Burakumin (部落民)
Burakumin (部落民), also called the Dowa issue, are Japan's largest minority, descendants of Tokugawa-era eta and hinin outcastes, legally emancipated in 1871 yet still facing employment, marriage, housing, and family-registry-based discrimination.
Buran (spacecraft)
Buran (Буран, "Snowstorm") was a Soviet reusable space orbiter developed by NPO Molniya. It made a single, fully automated uncrewed flight in 1988, before cancellation in 1993.
Buran programme
The Buran programme (Буран, "snowstorm"), also called the Shuttle Buran program, was the Soviet Union's reusable space shuttle project, launched unmanned once in 1988 and canceled in 1993.
Buranjis
Buranjis are prose chronicles of the Ahom kingdom in Assam, written in Ahom and later Assamese on Sanchi tree bark, and regarded as reliable sources for medieval Assam's history.
Burapahar Coal Mine
The Burapahar Coal Mine is a proposed coal mine in the Ib Valley coalfield, Sundargarh district, Odisha, India, allotted to Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation through a Ministry of Coal auction.
Buraq
The Buraq (Arabic: البراق) is the celestial riding beast of Islamic tradition on which the Prophet Muhammad traveled from Mecca to Jerusalem during the night journey, the Isra.
Burari deaths
The Burari deaths, also known as the Burari mass suicide, killed eleven members of the Chundawat family in Burari, Delhi, on 1 July 2018 during a ritual.
Burari metro station
Burari metro station (बुराड़ी) is an elevated station on the Pink Line of the Delhi Metro serving Burari in North Delhi, opened in March 2026.
Burari, Delhi
Burari (बुराड़ी) is a North Delhi locality and Assembly constituency on the Yamuna floodplain, formerly an 1883-recorded farming village, now a dense township of 10-12 lakh people known for unauthorized colonies, a severe road-drainage crisis, and a ₹125 crore corridor upgrade.
Buratino (film)
Buratino (Буратино) is a 2026 Russian family fantasy musical directed by Igor Voloshin, adapted from Alexei Tolstoy's 1936 tale of a carved wooden boy who comes to life.
Burayd ibn Abd Allah ibn Abi Burda al-Ash'ari
Burayd ibn Abd Allah ibn Abi Burda al-Ash'ari, or Abu Burda al-Ash'ari al-Saghir, was a Kufan hadith narrator whose narrations entered both Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim.
Burayda al-Aslami
Burayda al-Aslami (بريدة الأسلمي) was a companion of the Prophet Muhammad from the Aslam tribe and a first-generation hadith narrator who died in Merv in 682 or 683.
Buraydah
Buraydah (بريدة), also Buraidah, is the capital of Al-Qassim Region in central Saudi Arabia; 677,647 residents (2022 census), seat of the regional Emirate, and host of the world's largest annual dates carnival with SAR 3.2 billion in sales.
Burbank, California
Burbank, California: charter city in the eastern San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles County, about 12 miles northeast of downtown LA. Known as the Media Capital of the World; 107,337 residents (2020); incorporated 1911; home to Warner Bros., Disney, and Hollywood Burbank Airport.
Burberry
Burberry is a British luxury fashion house founded by Thomas Burberry in Basingstoke in 1856, famous for gabardine (invented 1879), the trench coat, and the Burberry Check. Distinct from other brands via its Yorkshire-made heritage trenches, Equestrian Knight logo, and LSE-listed Burberry Group plc.