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Sugam Sangeet
Sugam Sangeet (सुगम संगीत), meaning "easy" or "accessible music," is the Nepali term for light, non-classical modern song, largely overlapping with adhunik geet and still used in Nepali music awards.
Sugammadex
Sugammadex, sold as Bridion, is a modified gamma cyclodextrin that reverses rocuronium- or vecuronium-induced neuromuscular blockade by encapsulating the drug in plasma, first approved in the EU in 2008.
Sugamo Prison
Sugamo Prison (巣鴨プリズン), a Tokyo prison in Ikebukuro run by the US 8th Army from 1945, held Japanese war criminals including Hideki Tojo until the last releases in 1958; the Sunshine City complex now occupies the site.
Sugandha
Sugandha (सुगंधा) was a queen of Kashmir of the Utpala dynasty who ruled as regent from 902 and in her own name from 904 to 906.
Sugandha Garg
Sugandha Garg, Indian actress, singer, and TV host; debut Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na (2008) as Shaleen; first lead in Tere Bin Laden (2010); Tamil film Inam; ex-wife of Raghu Ram.
Sugandha Mishra
Sugandha Mishra (सुगंधा मिश्रा), Indian singer, comedian and actress from Jalandhar, Punjab; Indore gharana classical vocalist famous for Lata Mangeshkar mimicry, Great Indian Laughter Challenge finalist, Vidyavati on The Kapil Sharma Show, and Heropanti (2014).
Sugar
Sugar: sweet-tasting soluble carbohydrates, mainly glucose, fructose, galactose, sucrose, lactose, and maltose; sources, chemistry, metabolism, history from sugarcane domestication to high fructose corn syrup, and health effects of excess intake.
Sugar (2022 film)
Sugar (2022 film) refers chiefly to Vic Sarin's Canadian-Mexican crime drama, also titled Danger Below Deck, starring Katherine McNamara and Jasmine Sky Sarin as influencers caught in drug smuggling aboard a cruise, inspired by the Cocaine Cowgirls case; a separate 2022 Sugar Movie by Jermaine Quick also exists.
Sugar (2024 TV series)
Sugar is an Apple TV+ neo-noir detective drama created by Mark Protosevich, starring Colin Farrell as Los Angeles private eye John Sugar, hired to find a producer's missing granddaughter; episode 6 reveals Sugar is an alien. Season 1 premiered April 5, 2024; season 2 followed June 19, 2026.
Sugar (Brockhampton song)
SUGAR is a 2019 song by Brockhampton, the second track on GINGER, featuring Ryan Beatty, Dom McLennon, Matt Champion, Bearface, and Kevin Abstract; it leaked in June 2019, became the group's first Billboard Hot 100 entry, and spawned a 2020 remix with Dua Lipa and Jon B.
Sugar (Maroon 5 song)
Sugar is a 2014 Maroon 5 song from the album V, written with Mike Posner, produced by Ammo and Cirkut, released as a single on 13 January 2015, peaking at No. 2 in the US and No. 7 in the UK, famed for its David Dobkin wedding-crashing music video.
Sugar (Robin Schulz song)
"Sugar" is a 2015 single by German DJ Robin Schulz featuring Canadian vocalist Francesco Yates, sampling Baby Bash's "Suga Suga"; released on Tonspiel/Warner, it topped the German Dance chart for 16 weeks and has over 1.6 billion Spotify streams.
Sugar Act
Sugar Act (American Revenue Act, 1764): British Parliament law revising the 1733 Molasses Act, cutting molasses duty from 6 to 3 pence per gallon, taxing sugar, wine, and coffee, and strictly enforcing collection via vice-admiralty courts; distinct from the British Sugar Act of 1846.
Sugar alcohol
Sugar alcohols, also called polyols, are sweet-tasting carbohydrate derivatives whose sugar carbonyl group is converted to a hydroxyl group, used as reduced-calorie bulk sweeteners in sugar-free foods, including xylitol, sorbitol, and erythritol.
Sugar alcohol phase-change material
A sugar alcohol phase-change material is an organic PCM based on polyols such as erythritol and mannitol, storing latent heat at 80–230 °C but limited by high supercooling.
Sugar beet
Sugar beet (Beta vulgaris) is a temperate biennial root crop storing 16-18% sucrose, discovered as a sugar source by Marggraf in 1747, industrialized by Achard in 1801, and supplying about 20% of world sugar, led by the EU.
Sugar beet fiber
Sugar beet fiber (SBF, Beta vulgaris fiber) is dietary fiber made from sugar beet pulp after sugar extraction, containing hemicellulose, cellulose, pectin, and lignin; GRAS under FDA GRN 430 (2013), used as binder, texturizer, thickener, and fiber source.
Sugar Bowl
Sugar Bowl, annual New Orleans college football bowl game since Jan. 1, 1935 (Tulane 20, Temple 14), run by the non-profit Mid-Winter Sports Association, home of the SEC champion tie-in since 1975, now a CFP quarterfinal/semifinal host.
Sugar efflux transporter A-C
Sugar efflux transporter A-C covers sugar efflux transporters: the bacterial SET family (TC 2.A.1.20) and the eukaryotic SWEET/SLC50 family, uniporters mediating glucose and sucrose export in plants, animals, and microbes.
Sugar glider
Sugar glider (Petaurus breviceps), a small nocturnal Australian marsupial glider in family Petauridae; split into three species in 2021 (with P. ariel and P. notatus); glides up to 50 m; popular but welfare-problematic exotic pet.
Sugar Hill, Manhattan
Sugar Hill, Manhattan: historic Harlem neighborhood in Hamilton Heights, roughly 145th–155th Streets between Amsterdam and Edgecombe Avenues; named in the 1920s for the 'sweet life' of its Black professional elite; landmarked 2000–2002.
Sugar Honey Iced Tea
Sugar Honey Iced Tea is Latto's third studio album, released August 9, 2024 on RCA Records; a 21-track Atlanta-rooted rap album featuring Megan Thee Stallion, Ciara, Cardi B, and Young Nudy, distinct from songs by Bring Me the Horizon and BABYMONSTER.
Sugar industry
Sugar industry: global sector producing sugar from sugar cane (tropical, perennial) and sugar beet (temperate, annual), with by-products bagasse, molasses, and ethanol; Brazil dominant exporter.
Sugar Land, Texas
Sugar Land, Texas: Fort Bend County city about 20 miles southwest of Houston, founded as a sugar plantation, incorporated 1959, population 111,026 (2020), former Imperial Sugar company town.
Sugar Law of 1870
The Sugar Law of 1870 (Dutch: Suikerwet) was a Dutch law that ended the colonial government's compulsory sugar production in Java, moving the industry to free enterprise.
Sugar on My Tongue
Sugar on My Tongue is a 2025 Tyler, The Creator song, track 2 on DON'T TAP THE GLASS, self-written and produced, electro-hip-hop, peaked at 41 on the Billboard Hot 100, distinct from the 1977 Talking Heads song.
Sugar plum
Sugar plum: a historical comfit or dragée, a seed, nut, or spice coated in about 30 hardened sugar layers, plum-shaped but plum-free; obsolete word behind Moore's 1823 poem and Tchaikovsky's Sugar Plum Fairy.
Sugar Ray
Sugar Ray is an American pop-rock band from Newport Beach, California, co-founded by Mark McGrath and Rodney Sheppard; formerly The Tories/Shrinky Dinx, funk-metal on Lemonade and Brownies (1995), known for "Fly" (1997) and "Every Morning".
Sugar Ray Leonard
Sugar Ray Leonard (Ray Charles Leonard, born 1956), American boxer, 1976 Olympic light-welterweight gold medalist and five-division professional world champion; beat Benítez, Durán, Hearns, and Hagler; retired 36-3-1.
Sugar Ray Robinson
Sugar Ray Robinson (Walker Smith Jr., 1921–1989), American boxer, welterweight champion 1946–1951 and five-time middleweight champion; 175-19-6, 110 KOs; widely ranked greatest pound-for-pound fighter in history.