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Pleasanton

American  
[plez-uhn-tuhn] / ˈplɛz ən tən /

noun

  1. a town in W California.


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Pleasanton, Calif.-based Workday’s stock, which is down about 40% this year, has been battered by investor fears that artificial intelligence chatbots and large language models will make conventional business software obsolete.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

The fault runs from around the unincorporated community of Alamo in Contra Costa County southeast along Interstate 680 through areas around Danville, Dublin and Pleasanton.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 9, 2025

Mendoza interned at Acre Investment Company, a real-estate investment firm in Pleasanton, Calif., the summer before his sophomore year.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

Westminster Magistrates Court heard that Mr San Diego was stopped by a traffic warden an hour before the blast in Pleasanton.

From BBC • Sep. 8, 2025

How many out there today, across that silent field: There was Pleasanton, of the cavalry, and Newton, new commander of the First Corps.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara

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