yuri

1. JapaneseespeciallyuncountablefictionA narrative or visual work featuring a romantic or sexual relationship between women.

   On Tuesday, he wrote on social media that “if AI can solve all maths problems, I’ll go home and write my yuri novel”.

   2026 September 11, Shi Huang, “I’ll write romance novels if AI solves all maths problems, Chinese Fields winner jokes”, in South China Morning Post

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   I wanna start a Marxist reading circle but I feel like if I did that it would just be a bunch of trans puppies barking and playing and like not reading at all and a bunch of yuri

   2026 March 2, @lunas.png, Instagram

   Synonyms: girls' love, GL

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1. A transliteration of the Russian male given name Ю́рий (Júrij), equivalent to George.

   Khrushchev’s answer came 60 years ago, on April 12, 1961, when Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin circled the Earth aboard a spacecraft called Vostok 1.

   2021 April 12, Gregory McNamee, “This Soviet cosmonaut was the first human in orbit — fueling the space race”, in CNN

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1. A female given name from Japanese.