Angeleno
Americannoun
plural
Angelenosadjective
noun
Example Sentences
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“We should not spend over $150 million of public funds to reduce baseless, unscientific, unrealistic concerns about service tunnel noise from a very deep tunnel,” said Thomas Smith, a longtime Angeleno.
From Los Angeles Times
That all got started on Nov. 4, 1892, when a hopeful Angeleno named Edward Doheny took a eucalyptus log and sharpened it like a No. 2 pencil, and went chonking away at a patch of dirt in Echo Park — and struck oil.
From Los Angeles Times
Back when Haagen-Smit was discovering smog’s dirty secrets, he calculated that of the 30 pounds of air that an average Angeleno breathed every day, a few ounces of it was a brown, sludgy essence of smog.
From Los Angeles Times
The victims: any Angeleno with a set of lungs.
From Los Angeles Times
“As an Angeleno with generational roots to this city and as a seasoned member of its creative community, advocacy for Los Angeles-based production is something that is very close to my heart,” Wyle said.
From Los Angeles Times
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