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Prudence Fowler
Prudence Fowler (born 2003, Auckland) is a New Zealand track cyclist, 2025 world championship bronze (scratch) and silver (team pursuit) medallist and Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games team pursuit silver medallist; not the British masters rider Walter Fowler.
Prudent Maran
Prudent Maran (1683–1762) was a French Benedictine of the Congregation of St. Maur whose 1726 edition of Cyprian was the standard text until 1868; he also edited Justin in 1742.
Prudente de Morais
Prudente de Morais was the first civilian president of Brazil, in office from 1894 to 1898, marking the end of military rule and the rise of the São Paulo coffee oligarchy.
Prudential Assurance Co Ltd v London Residuary Body
Prudential Assurance Co Ltd v London Residuary Body [1992] 2 AC 386, English House of Lords land law case holding that a lease until road widening was void for uncertainty, creating only a yearly tenancy, and overruling Midland Railway and Ashburn Anstalt.
Prudential Center
Prudential Center, nicknamed the Rock, is an indoor arena in downtown Newark, New Jersey, that opened in 2007 as home of the NHL's New Jersey Devils.
Prudential Financial
Prudential Financial, also known as the Prudential Insurance Company of America, is an American insurance and asset-management company headquartered in Newark, New Jersey, founded in 1875.
Prudential plc
Prudential plc, also known as The Prudential, is a life and health insurance and asset management group operating in 24 markets across Asia and Africa, listed in Hong Kong and London.
Prudential Regulation Authority
The Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) is the UK's specialist prudential regulator, supervising banks, building societies, credit unions, and insurers as part of the Bank of England.
Prudential Trophy
The Prudential Trophy was the first bilateral One Day International series: three 55-over matches between England and Australia, played in England in 1972 and won 2–1 by England.
Prudentius
Aurelius Prudentius Clemens (348–after 405), Spanish Christian Latin poet, author of Cathemerinon, Peristephanon, Apotheosis, Hamartigenia, Contra Symmachum, and the Psychomachia, the first full-scale personification allegory.
Prudhoe Bay Oil Field
Prudhoe Bay Oil Field is a giant oil field on Alaska's Arctic coast, discovered in 1968 by ARCO and Humble Oil; it is the largest oil field in North America.
Prudhoe Bay, Alaska
Prudhoe Bay, Alaska: a North Slope census-designated place and site of the largest oil field in North America, discovered 1967-1968, producing since 1977 via the 800-mile trans-Alaska pipeline, with deep permafrost and mostly transient oil workers.
Prue Halliwell
Prue Halliwell (Prudence Halliwell), oldest Charmed One in the TV series Charmed (1998-2006), played by Shannen Doherty in seasons 1-3; Warren witch with telekinesis and astral projection, killed by Shax in 2001 and replaced by half-sister Paige.
Prue Leith
Dame Prue Leith (born 1940, Cape Town) is a South African-born British restaurateur, cookery writer and novelist, founder of Leith's restaurant and cookery school, Bake Off judge 2017–2025, and Dame Commander (2021).
PRUE trial
PRUE (NCT01653171), a Chilean randomized double-blind trial by Monrroy et al, tested simethicone with or without N-acetylcysteine before upper GI endoscopy; simethicone plus NAC improved gastric visibility (65-67% vs 41-44%), simethicone alone did not.
Prufrock and Other Observations
Prufrock and Other Observations is T. S. Eliot's first book of poems, published in London in 1917 and opening with "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock".
Pruitt Taylor Vince
Pruitt Taylor Vince, born 1960 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is an American character actor with nystagmus known for twitchy roles. He won the 1997 Emmy for Murder One, starred in Heavy and Identity, and plays Pa Kent in Superman (2025).
Pruitt–Igoe
Pruitt–Igoe was a large St. Louis public housing complex of 33 eleven-story towers, completed in 1954, designed by Minoru Yamasaki, and demolished beginning in 1972.
Prulifloxacin
Prulifloxacin (NM441, brands Sword, Unidrox) is a fluoroquinolone antibiotic prodrug of ulifloxacin, approved in Japan (2002) and Europe, used for urinary and respiratory tract infections, dosed 600 mg once daily.
Prumnopitys
Prumnopitys is a genus of three densely branched, dioecious podocarp conifers native to New Zealand and South America, established in 1860, with seeds fully embedded in a fleshy epimatium.
Prumnopitys andina
Prumnopitys andina, the lleuque or Chilean plum yew, is a vulnerable evergreen conifer native to south-central and southern Chile, grown for its sweet, grape-like cones.
Prune
Prune: a dried plum, and the prune-type cultivars of European plum (Prunus domestica), oval blue-purple fruit with high-sugar yellow flesh suited to drying; cultivars include Stanley, Improved French, and Early Italian.
Prune belly syndrome
Prune belly syndrome (Eagle-Barrett syndrome, triad syndrome): rare congenital disorder of deficient abdominal muscles, urinary tract dilation, and bilateral cryptorchidism, affecting about 95% males, with 10-25% perinatal mortality.
Prunella Scales
Prunella Scales (1932–2025), English actress, played Sybil Fawlty in Fawlty Towers, Elizabeth Mapp in Mapp & Lucia, and Queen Elizabeth II in A Question of Attribution; married to Timothy West, CBE 1992, died aged 93.
Prunella vulgaris
Prunella vulgaris (self-heal, heal-all, Xiakucao 夏枯草), a perennial Lamiaceae herb native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere and Central America, used in Chinese medicine as the dried fruit spike and in pollinator-friendly lawns.
Pruning
Pruning: selective removal of plant branches, buds, or roots for health, size, and fruiting; also forest thinning and neural-network pruning. Key rules: dormant-season timing, branch-collar cuts, 25 percent limit, tool disinfection.
Pruno
Pruno, also called hooch, prison wine, or toilet wine, is illicit alcohol inmates ferment from fruit, sugar, and water in sealed bags; its anaerobic, low-acid fermentation enables Clostridium botulinum toxin and has caused multiple US prison botulism outbreaks since 2004.
Prunus
Prunus (plum, cherry, peach, almond, apricot genus) is a cosmopolitan Rosaceae genus of about 359 accepted drupe-bearing trees and shrubs, with three main phylogenetic clades and S-RNase gametophytic self-incompatibility requiring cross-pollination.
Prunus × yedoensis
Prunus × yedoensis (Somei-yoshino, Yoshino cherry) is a hybrid flowering cherry; the cultivated clone arose from P. spachiana f. ascendens × P. speciosa, while wild Jeju Island trees originated independently.
Prunus armeniaca
Prunus armeniaca, the apricot, a diploid stone fruit native to Central Asia to China with disputed two- or three-event domestication, misleading 'Armenian' name; Türkiye leads 2023 production (750,000 t); kernels contain amygdalin.