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Zuchering
Zuchering, a district of Ingolstadt, Bavaria, on the south Danube bank; first recorded as Zuohiringin in the 12th century, with an urnfield cemetery (1300-800 BC) and an early medieval iron-smelting settlement.
Zuchongzhi (quantum processor)
Zuchongzhi is a family of superconducting quantum processors developed at the University of Science and Technology of China under Jian-Wei Pan, growing from 62 to 105 qubits.
Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker
Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker (ZAZ): David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, and Jim Abrahams, American parody-comedy trio behind Airplane!, Top Secret!, Ruthless People, Police Squad!, and The Naked Gun.
Zuclopenthixol
Zuclopenthixol (Clopixol), cis-isomer of clopenthixol, a thioxanthene typical antipsychotic introduced in 1962; sold as oral dihydrochloride, short-acting acetate injection, and decanoate depot for schizophrenia.
Zuenir Ventura
Zuenir Ventura, full name Zuenir Carlos Ventura (1931–2026), was a Brazilian journalist and writer whose reportage books on 1968, Rio de Janeiro, and Chico Mendes became reference works.
Zuezeu
Zuezeu is the stage name of Reef Shaw, an American tech house DJ and producer from Oahu, Hawaii, who played EDC Las Vegas 2024 and released the album More Life.
Zufar ibn al-Hudhayl
Zufar ibn al-Hudhayl (728–775) was a Basran Sunni jurist, a close companion of Abu Hanifa, and the eponym of the vanished Zufari school of Hanafi law.
Zuffa
Zuffa, LLC (Zuffa Parent, LLC, now TKO Operating Company) is the Las Vegas company founded by Frank and Lorenzo Fertitta that bought the UFC for $2 million in 2001, acquired WEC, Pride, and Strikeforce, sold the UFC for $4 billion in 2016, and settled the Le v. Zuffa antitrust class action for $375 million in 2025.
Zuffa Boxing
Zuffa Boxing is Dana White's professional boxing promotion, a TKO Group Holdings and Sela joint venture launched January 2026, streaming exclusively on Paramount+ with 12 cards a year, Conor Benn its marquee signing.
Zug
Zug is a Swiss city and canton on Lake Zug, capital of Switzerland's smallest full canton (239 km², 11 municipalities, ~135,000 people). Known for low taxes, Glencore, Crypto Valley, and cherry traditions.
Zugdidi Botanical Gardens
Zugdidi Botanical Garden (ზუგდიდის ბოტანიკური ბაღი), a 26-hectare historic garden in Zugdidi, Georgia, founded 1840 by Prince David Dadiani beside the Dadiani Palace, designed by Joseph Babin, rehabilitated 2018–2019.
Zugmantel
Zugmantel (Kastell Zugmantel) is a Roman auxiliary fort and vicus on the Upper German Limes in the Taunus, Hesse. Founded about 90 AD, garrisoned by Cohors I Treverorum equitata, enlarged to 2.1 ha by 233 AD, destroyed around 259/60 AD.
Zugspitze
The Zugspitze is a 2,962-meter mountain in the Wetterstein range on the border between Bavaria, Germany, and Tyrol, Austria, and at that height it is the highest mountain in Germany.
Zugzwang
Zugzwang is a chess situation in which every legal move worsens the player's position because passing is illegal. It arises most often in endgames, as in the famous Sämisch–Nimzowitsch game of 1923.
Zuhayr ibn Abi Sulma
Zuhayr ibn Abi Sulma was an Arab poet of the Muzayna tribe, ranked among the three foremost pre-Islamic Arab poets and called the "sage of the poets".
Zuhayr ibn Muhammad al-Marwazi
Zuhayr ibn Muhammad al-Marwazi was a hadith transmitter of Merv origin who lived in Baghdad and died at the frontier town of Tarsus in 257 or 258 AH.
Zuhd literature
Zuhd literature (Arabic: أدب الزهد, adab al-zuhd) is Arabic religious writing in prose and poetry expressing zuhd, renunciation of worldly comforts for the hereafter, an early Islamic genre.
Zuhdi Jasser
Zuhdi Jasser is an American physician, former U.S. Navy officer, and the 2026 Republican nominee for the U.S. House in Arizona's Fourth Congressional District, facing incumbent Greg Stanton.
Zuhra ibn Ma'bad
Zuhra ibn Ma'bad, kunya Abu 'Uqayl, was a Medinan-born hadith narrator of the tabi'un of Quraysh who settled in Alexandria, Egypt, and died there around 135 AH.
Zuhuri
Zuhuri (ظهوری), full name Molla Nur-al-Din Mohammad Zuhuri Torshizi, was a Persian poet and prose writer, poet laureate at Ahmadnagar and then Bijapur, who died around 1616.
Zui Hua Yin: Thin Mist and Thick Clouds
Zui Hua Yin: Thin Mist and Thick Clouds (醉花阴·薄雾浓云愁永昼) is a Song-dynasty ci, or song lyric, by Li Qingzhao, written on the Double Ninth festival of 1103.
Zuiderzee
Zuiderzee, former brackish North Sea bay in the Netherlands, formed by 12th-century floods including the 1170 Allerheiligenvloed; closed by the 32 km Afsluitdijk on 28 May 1932, becoming the freshwater IJsselmeer.
Zuiderzee Works
The Zuiderzee Works (Zuiderzeewerken) are a Dutch hydraulic engineering program, planned by Cornelis Lely, that dammed the Zuiderzee to create the freshwater IJsselmeer and reclaimed about 165,000 hectares of polders.
Zuihitsu
Zuihitsu is a genre of Japanese literature consisting of loosely connected prose and poetry written as thoughts occur, beginning with Sei Shōnagon's Pillow Book around 1002 AD.
Zuism
Zuism, also known as Zuist or Anunnakism, is a religious movement claiming to revive the ancient Sumerian religion, best known for registering in Iceland in 2013.
Zuiweng Ting Ji
Zuiweng Ting Ji (醉翁亭记, "Record of the Pavilion of the Drunken Old Man") is a classic 1046 prose essay by the Song writer Ouyang Xiu.
Zukan Helez
Zukan Helez is a Bosnian Social Democratic Party politician who serves as Minister of Defence and Vice Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Zuko
Zuko is the Fire Nation prince in Avatar: The Last Airbender, voiced by Dante Basco, banished and scarred by his father Ozai at 13 for speaking out, hunting the Avatar to regain his honor before joining Aang as his firebending teacher and becoming Fire Lord.
Zukunft Volkswagen
Zukunft Volkswagen is a December 2024 collective bargaining agreement between Volkswagen, IG Metall, and the works council that cuts over 35,000 German jobs by 2030 while banning plant closures through 2030.
Zul Ariffin
Zul Ariffin (Zulkifli bin Ariffin, born 1986, Taiping, Perak) is a Malaysian actor and model who began acting in 2008, broke through with Rindu Awak 200%, and starred in J Revolusi, Tombiruo, and Sheriff: Narko Integriti.