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Foster City

American  

noun

  1. a city in W California.


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Terns, of Foster City, Calif., has been developing pills to treat cancer, as well as obesity and metabolic-liver diseases.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

Amazon-owned Zoox has started operating its autonomous vehicle on a mile-long route between two of the company’s buildings on a public road in Foster City, California.

From Washington Times • Feb. 14, 2023

“It’s like an ecosystem of dreams,” Dmitriy Gutkovich said, describing his voices to me over Zoom from Foster City, Calif. Some threaten his family; others speak philosophically on entropy.

From New York Times • May 17, 2022

From 2016 to 2019, she was a research associate in chemistry for Nanosyn in Santa Clara, then a research associate in medicinal chemistry at Gilead Sciences in Foster City for eight months.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 2021

Martin, who started at Gilead in 1990, turned a struggling pharmaceutical firm with a staff of 35 into a $100 billion company based in Foster City, California, with some 12,000 employees.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 30, 2021

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