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Au pair

Au pair: a young foreigner living with a host family, providing childcare and light housework for room, board, and stipend under cultural-exchange rules; US J-1 program caps work at 45 hours weekly; Norway abolished its scheme in 2024.

Au Pays du Cocaine

Au Pays du Cocaine is a 2025 song by Brooklyn band Geese from Getting Killed, a Cockaigne-punning ballad by Cameron Winter, produced with Kenny Beats, named Consequence's Best Song of 2025 and performed on SNL.

Au revoir les enfants

Au revoir les enfants (Goodbye, Children) is Louis Malle's 1987 autobiographical French drama about Jewish boys hidden at a Catholic boarding school in occupied France; it won the 1987 Golden Lion, seven Césars, and an Oscar nomination.

Au Revoir Taipei

Au Revoir Taipei (一頁台北) is a 2010 Taiwanese romantic comedy directed by Arvin Chen, starring Jack Yao and Amber Kuo. It follows one night in Taipei, won the NETPAC Award at Berlin 2010, and had Wim Wenders as executive producer.

AU Small Finance Bank

AU Small Finance Bank is a Jaipur-headquartered Indian scheduled commercial bank that began in 1996 as a vehicle-finance company and became a small finance bank in April 2017.

AU-rich element

AU-rich element (ARE, adenylate-uridylate-rich element): 50–150 nt AUUUA-rich cis-elements in mRNA 3′UTRs controlling decay, stability, and translation via proteins like TTP and HuR; found in 5–8% of human genes, prominent in cytokine and proto-oncogene transcripts.

Au(n)edonnacum

Au(n)edonnacum, also Auedonnaco, was a Gallo-Roman road station and castrum at Aulnay-de-Saintonge, France, on the Saintes–Poitiers road, with an Augusto-Tiberian legionary camp at Rocheroux occupied about 10–30 AD.

Au25(SR)18 nanocluster catalysis

Au25(SR)18 nanocluster catalysis is the use of the atomically precise gold nanocluster Au25(SR)18, a molecule of 25 gold atoms and 18 thiolate ligands, as a well-defined catalyst.

Aubade

"Aubade" is a poem by the English poet Philip Larkin on the fear of death, completed in 1977 and generally regarded as his last major poem.

Aubagne

Aubagne (Aubanha) is a commune of 47,529 inhabitants (2023) in Bouches-du-Rhône, France, in the Huveaune valley near Marseille. Birthplace of Marcel Pagnol and capital of Provençal santon-making and ceramics, first recorded as Albanea in 1005.

Aubert

Aubert: hamlet in Moulis, Ariège, France, home of the Grand Antique marble quarry, a Roman-era black-and-white breccia; also a Quebec geologic formation and a Catalan site.

Aubert Miraeus

Aubert Miraeus, also known as Aubert le Mire (1573–1640), was a Southern Netherlandish ecclesiastical historian and dean of Antwerp cathedral whose editions of medieval chronicles and charters founded Belgian ecclesiastical historiography.

Aubigny

Aubigny: name of several French communes with notable archaeology, chiefly the Gallo-Roman Cherré complex at Aubigné-Racan (Sarthe), plus Gallic sites at Aubigny (Somme) and Aubigny-au-Bac (Nord).

AUBO Robotics

AUBO Robotics (遨博智能) is a Chinese collaborative robot manufacturer founded in 2015 in Beijing, known for its modular six-axis cobot arms; in 2023 it ranked third in global cobot shipments.

Aubrey Beardsley

Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (1872–1898), British illustrator of the fin de siècle and English Art Nouveau, known for black-and-white line-block drawings for Le Morte Darthur, Wilde's Salome, The Yellow Book, and The Savoy.

Aubrey de Grey

Aubrey de Grey (born 1963) is a British biomedical gerontologist, Cambridge-trained, creator of the SENS damage-repair framework, co-founder of Methuselah, SENS Research, and LEV Foundations, author of Ending Aging, removed from SRF in 2021.

Aubrey Harris

Aubrey Harris (c. 1909–1980), British runner and administrator; member of the Great Britain 4 × 1500m relay team that set a 15:55.6 world record in Cologne, 1931; later Oxford City AC secretary and AAA starter.

Aubrey Huff

Aubrey Huff, born 1976, American MLB first baseman/outfielder 2000–2012 with Rays, Astros, Orioles, Tigers, Giants; .278, 242 HR; 2008 AL Silver Slugger; 2010 and 2012 World Series champion.

Aubrey J. Kempner

Aubrey J. Kempner (Aubrey John Kempner, 1880–1973) was an English-born mathematician known for the Kempner series and Kempner function, who headed the University of Colorado Boulder mathematics department.

Aubrey McClendon

Aubrey Kerr McClendon (1959–2016) was an American energy executive who co-founded Chesapeake Energy in Oklahoma City in 1989 and built it into the second-largest US natural gas producer during the shale boom.

Aubrey O'Day

Aubrey Morgan O'Day (born 1984, San Francisco) is an American pop singer and TV personality, first member chosen for Danity Kane on Making the Band 3; later solo artist (Between Two Evils, No. 131) and Dumblonde member.

Aubrey Otis Hampton

Aubrey Otis Hampton (1900–1955) was an American radiologist, chief of radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital, whose 1940 study with Benjamin Castleman described the Hampton hump of pulmonary infarction.

Aubrey Peeples

Aubrey Peeples (Aubrey Shea Peeples, born 1993, Lake Mary, Florida) is an American actor and musician known as Layla Grant on ABC's Nashville and as Jem in Jem and the Holograms (2015), later performing as swampz.

Aubrey Plaza

Aubrey Plaza (Aubrey Christina Plaza), American actress, producer, and comedian born 1984 in Wilmington, Delaware, known for April Ludgate on Parks and Recreation, Legion, The White Lotus, Agatha All Along, and Evil Hag Productions.

Aubrey Qwana

Aubrey Qwana is a platinum-selling South African afro-pop and afro-soul singer, rapper, and songwriter from Ulundi, KwaZulu-Natal, who broke through with "Ngaqonywa" and is best known for the 2020 hit "Molo".

Aubrey Strahan

Sir Aubrey Strahan (1852–1928) was a British economic geologist who led the fifteen-year resurvey of the South Wales coalfield and directed the Geological Survey of Great Britain from 1914.

Aubrey T Hanbicki

Aubrey T Hanbicki is an American experimental physicist who demonstrated 30% electrical spin injection from ferromagnetic contacts into semiconductors and studied transition-metal dichalcogenide monolayers at the Naval Research Laboratory.

Aubrey V. Weigel

Aubrey V. Weigel is a cell biologist and imaging scientist who led the COSEM project at HHMI's Janelia and showed proteins exit the ER through tubular networks, not vesicles.

Aubrey Vanderbilt Cecil

Aubrey Vanderbilt Cecil (Aubrey Lea Amherst Vanderbilt Cecil Baliles), great-great-granddaughter of George and Edith Vanderbilt, is an Asheville jewelry designer and founder of Avermore, a Biltmore-inspired fine jewelry brand.

Aubrey William Ingleton

Aubrey William Ingleton (1920–2000) was a British mathematician at Oxford known for the Ingleton inequality, a matroid rank inequality later used in information theory and network coding.