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Sugar Ray Robinson vs. Jake LaMotta
Robinson vs. LaMotta: six-fight boxing rivalry, 1942-1951, between Sugar Ray Robinson and Jake LaMotta; Robinson won five, LaMotta one; the sixth, the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, gave Robinson the middleweight title.
Sugar revolution in Barbados
The sugar revolution in Barbados was the rapid shift from tobacco and cotton farming to slave-worked sugar monoculture, mainly between 1640 and 1650, reshaping the island's society.
Sugar Rush
Sugar Rush: Netflix baking competition (2018–2020, 3 seasons, 20 episodes) hosted by Hunter March with judges Candace Nelson and Adriano Zumbo; teams race a pausable clock through cupcakes, confections, and cakes rounds for a $10,000 prize. Distinct from Food Network's Warren Brown series of the same name.
Sugar substitute
Sugar substitute: also called non-sugar or non-nutritive sweetener. Ingredients replacing sugar, including aspartame, sucralose, stevia, monk fruit, sugar alcohols, and allulose; regulated via ADIs, with WHO 2023 advising against NSS for weight control.
Sugar transferase, PEP-CTERM, Stp2
Sugar transferase, PEP-CTERM, Stp2 (TIGR03088) is a bacterial glycosyltransferase family of the PEP-CTERM/exosortase exopolysaccharide system, optional component stp2, distinct from Arabidopsis STP2 transporter and Candida Stp2 factor.
Sugar, Sugar
"Sugar, Sugar" (Sugar Sugar), 1969 bubblegum pop single by fictional cartoon band The Archies, written by Jeff Barry and Andy Kim, produced by Barry, sung by Ron Dante and Toni Wine. Billboard Hot 100 number one for four weeks and the top single of 1969; UK number one for eight weeks.
SugarBox (Margo Networks)
SugarBox, the brand of Margo Networks Private Limited, was a Mumbai startup whose edge platform let people use mobile apps over free local Wi-Fi; it shut down in 2024.
Sugarcane
Sugarcane (Saccharum spp.) is a tropical grass, domesticated in New Guinea, supplying about 80 percent of the world's sugar and a major feedstock for bioethanol.
Sugarcane (film)
Sugarcane (2024) is a documentary by Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie on the Williams Lake First Nation investigation into St. Joseph's Mission residential school; Sundance Directing Award winner and Oscar-nominated.
Sugarcane ethanol
Sugarcane ethanol is ethanol fuel produced by fermenting and distilling sugarcane juice, the dominant biofuel of Brazil, where a blending mandate has put ethanol in all gasoline since 1975.
Sugarcane juice
Sugarcane juice, also called caldo de cana or guarapo, is the liquid pressed from sugarcane stalks, drunk fresh across Asia, Africa, and Latin America. It spoils within hours through inversion, browning, and fermentation, and street-vended samples often exceed microbial limits.
Sugarcane mosaic virus
Sugarcane mosaic virus (SCMV), a potyvirus with a ~10 kb positive-sense RNA genome, infects sugarcane, maize, and sorghum worldwide, is aphid-transmitted non-persistently, and is distinct from sorghum mosaic virus and sugarcane streak mosaic virus.
Sugarfree
Sugarfree is a Filipino alternative rock band formed in 1999, best known for "Burnout" and "Hari ng Sablay" and for the 2003 debut album Sa Wakas.
Sugarhill Ddot
Sugarhill Ddot (Darrian Jimenez, born 2008) is a Harlem drill/trap rapper who broke out in 2022, signed to relaunched Priority Records in 2023, and released the debut album 2 Sides of the Story (2024) with viral hit "My Baby." Not the Harlem neighborhood or Sugarhill Gang.
Sugaring (epilation)
Sugaring, also called sugar waxing or Persian waxing, is an epilation hair removal method using a heated paste of sugar, lemon juice, and water applied against hair growth and removed with it, differing from waxing in adhesion and direction.
Sugarland
Sugarland is an American country music duo formed in Atlanta, Georgia, in 2002, consisting of Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush, known for "Stay" and five straight CMA Vocal Duo of the Year awards.
Sugarloaf
Sugarloaf: a molded conical mass of hard refined sugar, the standard retail and export form from the Middle Ages until granulated and cube sugar replaced it in the late 19th century; also a shape term behind many hill names.
Sugarloaf Island
Sugarloaf Island: name of several small islands, notably a seabird-rich islet off Clarence Island, South Shetland Islands (61°11'S 54°00'W), and a monitored living-shoreline island at Morehead City, North Carolina.
Sugarloaf Mountain
Sugarloaf Mountain (Pão de Açúcar), a 396 m gneiss monolith at the entrance of Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro; a UNESCO World Heritage site reached by Brazil's first cable car (1912), with about 2 million visitors yearly.
Sugary drink tax
Sugary drink tax (soda tax, SSB levy): excise on sugar-sweetened beverages, ad valorem, volume-based, or sugar-content-based. In 2023–2024, 103–116 countries taxed SSBs; a 10% tax cuts purchases about 10%.
Sugata Mitra
Sugata Mitra is an Indian computer scientist known for the Hole in the Wall experiments and for winning the first $1 million TED Prize in 2013.
Sugathakumari (സുഗതകുമാരി)
Sugathakumari (സുഗതകുമാരി), 1934–2020, Malayalam poet, environmentalist, and first chairperson of the Kerala State Women's Commission; led the Save Silent Valley movement, founded Abhaya, and won the Saraswati Samman, Ezhuthachan Award, and Padma Shri.
Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami
Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami (菅原伝授手習鑑) is a 1746 five-act Japanese puppet play about the exile of Sugawara no Michizane and triplet brothers, counted among the three great gidayu masterpieces.
Sugawara no Michizane
Sugawara no Michizane (菅原道真, 845–903) was a Heian court scholar and poet who was exiled to Dazaifu in 901 and later deified as Tenjin, the kami of learning.
Suge Knight
Suge Knight (Marion Hugh Knight Jr., born 1965) co-founded Death Row Records with Dr. Dre, drove 1990s gangsta rap to $100 million a year, went bankrupt, and since 2018 has served a 28-year voluntary manslaughter sentence.
Sugemalimab
Sugemalimab, sold as Cejemly and Eqjubi, is a fully human anti-PD-L1 monoclonal antibody developed by CStone Pharmaceuticals, first approved in China in 2021 for lung cancer.
Sugeno integral
The Sugeno integral is a nonlinear aggregation operator that combines values with respect to a fuzzy measure, using only maximum and minimum instead of addition and multiplication.
Suger
Suger (c. 1081–1151) was a Benedictine abbot of the royal abbey of Saint-Denis, counselor to Louis VI and Louis VII, and regent of France during the Second Crusade.
Suggestion
Suggestion (psychology): uncritical acceptance of an idea, per MeSH; measured via suggestibility scales like HGSHS:A and the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scales; distinct direct and interrogative forms, r = 0.50 overall in 2025 meta-analysis.
Suggs
Suggs, born Graham McPherson, is an English singer-songwriter, radio presenter, and actor best known as the lead singer of the ska band Madness since 1977.