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Truf

Truf is an Indonesian trick-taking card game for four players with a 52-card pack; players bid tricks with face-down cards, trump suit comes from the highest bid, and play is main atas or main bawah.

Truffaut (Mercurian crater)

Truffaut is a 79-km-diameter impact crater on Mercury at 13.49°N, 63.21°W, in quadrangle H-06, adopted by the IAU on August 13, 2024 and named for French filmmaker François Truffaut (1932–1984).

Truffle

Truffle (Tuber spp.), underground ectomycorrhizal fungus prized as food; species include Tuber magnatum, T. melanosporum, T. aestivum. Cultivated since Talon's 1808 orchards; white truffle still uncultivated; prices reach thousands of euros per kilogram.

Truffle Capital

Truffle Capital is an independent venture capital firm based in Paris, founded in 2001, which invests in biomedtech and fintech and raised nearly €400 million in 2019.

Truffle hog

Truffle hog, a pig used to sniff out buried Tuber truffles, drawn by a scent likened to boar sex pheromones; replaced by trained dogs and banned in Italy in 1985 for damaging mycelium.

Truffle oil

Truffle oil is a flavored finishing oil, usually olive oil with synthetic 2,4-dithiapentane rather than real truffles; studies flag mislabeling, marker compounds DMSO and dimethyl sulfone, and heat-sensitive aroma.

Truganini

Truganini (c.1812–1876), also Trugernanner or Trukanini, was a Palawa (Tasmanian Aboriginal) Nuenonne leader of Bruny Island, Robinson's Friendly Mission guide and interpreter, wrongly labeled the 'last Tasmanian'; her displayed remains were cremated in 1976 per her wish.

Truist Financial

Truist Financial is a Charlotte, North Carolina-based bank holding company formed in 2019 by the merger of BB&T and SunTrust Banks, with about $531 billion in assets.

Truist Park

Truist Park, formerly SunTrust Park, is the Atlanta Braves' MLB ballpark in Cobb County, Georgia, opened in 2017. Known for The Battery Atlanta mixed-use district, 25-year naming rights, and debated public financing.

TruJet

TruJet, formally Turbo Megha Airways, was an Indian low-cost regional airline based in Hyderabad that flew ATR 72s to smaller cities of south India from 2015 to 2022.

Trujillanos

Trujillanos FC (Guerreros de la Montaña), Venezuelan football club founded 25 August 1981 in Valera, Trujillo; two-time Copa Venezuela winner (1992, 2010), Apertura 2014 champion, Liga FUTVE 2 champion 2025, back in the Primera División in 2026.

Trujillo Era

The Trujillo Era (Spanish: la Era de Trujillo) was the 1930 to 1961 period when Rafael Trujillo held near-absolute power over the Dominican Republic, ending in his assassination.

Trujillo massacre

Trujillo massacre refers to several mass killings sharing the name: the 1932 execution of Aprista prisoners at Chan Chan, Peru; the 1937 Parsley Massacre of Haitians under Rafael Trujillo; and a 1990 massacre in Trujillo, Colombia.

Trujillo Revolution of 1932

The Trujillo Revolution of 1932, also called the Trujillo Insurrection, was an APRA uprising that seized Trujillo, Peru, on 7 July 1932 and was crushed within days.

Trujillo, Spain

Trujillo (Turgalium, Turyila) is a historic town in Cáceres province, Extremadura, Spain, on a granite hill. Islamic frontier medina, taken by Fernando III in 1232, birthplace of Pizarro and Orellana, BIC historic complex since 1962.

TruKKer

TruKKer is a digital freight platform, founded in 2016 by Gaurav Biswas, connecting businesses with independent truck owners across the Middle East and Central Asia.

Trullo

A trullo is a traditional dry-stone dwelling of Puglia in southern Italy, built of limestone without mortar and roofed with corbelled conical slabs; the finest examples stand in Alberobello, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1996.

Truman (2015 film)

Truman (2015) is a Spanish-Argentine comedy-drama by Cesc Gay, co-written with Tomàs Aragay, starring Ricardo Darín and Javier Cámara as friends sharing a dying actor's final days; it won five Goya Awards.

Truman Capote

Truman Capote (Truman Streckfus Persons, 1924-1984), American author of Breakfast at Tiffany's and In Cold Blood, pioneer of the nonfiction novel, socially ruined by his Answered Prayers excerpts.

Truman Doctrine

The Truman Doctrine was the American policy announced by President Harry S. Truman in 1947 to aid nations threatened by authoritarian forces, starting with $400 million for Greece and Turkey.

Truman Jones

Truman Jones (born 2000) is an NFL defensive end for the Tennessee Titans, No. 56; Harvard biomedical engineering graduate, undrafted 2023 Chiefs signee, later Patriots, Titans from October 2025.

Truman State University

Truman State University, formerly Northeast Missouri State University, is a public liberal arts and sciences university in Kirksville, Missouri, founded in 1867 and renamed in 1996 for President Harry S. Truman.

Trumbo (2015 film)

Trumbo (2015) is a biographical drama directed by Jay Roach, written by John McNamara, starring Bryan Cranston as blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo; Oscar-nominated, 74% on Rotten Tomatoes, $7.9M US gross.

Trumbull County

Trumbull County, Ohio: county established July 10, 1800, named for Connecticut Governor Jonathan Trumbull; seat Warren; originally the whole Connecticut Western Reserve; 201,977 residents (2020).

Trümmerliteratur

Trümmerliteratur, also called Kahlschlagliteratur, is the German literary current of roughly 1945 to the early 1950s in which returning-soldier authors depicted postwar destruction in plain language.

Trump (card games)

Trump (card games): the suit that beats all others in trick-taking games such as euchre, bridge, and Skat; also a specific invented game where each player declares a personal trump suit.

TRUMP (political party)

TRUMP (Tous Réunis pour l'Union des Mouvements Populistes) is a Belgian francophone far-right party founded in November 2025 by Salvatore Nicotra, successor to Chez Nous and the Belgian Front National, planning 2029 elections.

Trump account

A Trump account is a tax-advantaged investment account the U.S. government establishes for children under 18, seeded with $1,000, managed by the Treasury Department, and automatically enrolled.

Trump administration family separation policy

The Trump administration family separation policy (zero tolerance) separated migrant children from parents at the U.S.–Mexico border, formalized April–June 2018, ended by court order and Executive Order 13841, with over 11,800 people later covered by the Ms. L settlement.

Trump Always Chickens Out

TACO, 'Trump Always Chickens Out', a markets acronym coined by Financial Times columnist Robert Armstrong on May 2, 2025, describing Trump's tariff-threat-then-retreat pattern and the trade of buying the resulting dips.