Oceanside
Americannoun
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a city in SW California.
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a town on SW Long Island, in SE New York.
Example Sentences
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A bizarre pursuit unfolded along the residential streets of Oceanside this week as a helicopter and half a dozen sheriff’s patrol cars chased a teen whizzing away from them on an electric dirt bike.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
In the years after 9/11, Oceanside was covered in yellow ribbons meant to support the troops.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 2026
The northbound Amtrak Pacific Surfliner Train No. 785 was scheduled to have left Oceanside at 4:57 p.m. and arrive at San Clemente Pier at 5:20 p.m.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 23, 2025
I grew up on New York’s Long Island, in Oceanside, a suburb that strangely isn’t on the ocean.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 21, 2025
Some of Steiner's imitators in The Rosicrucian Fellowship at Oceanside, California, however, openly profess what they call Rosicrucianism and at the same time claim superior knowledge on the subject of Masonry.
From Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Webster, Nesta H.
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