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Central Valley

American  

noun

  1. the chief wine-producing region of California, centered in San Joaquin County.


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Becerra has spent the waning days of the campaign stumping for Democrats in competitive House races in the Central Valley and Southern California.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2026

"People are reaching out because they want to do something," she told AFP during a July 2025 interview at the headquarters of her Dolores Huerta Foundation in Bakersfield, an agricultural nexus in California's Central Valley.

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

Trader Joe’s website lists three other California stores as “coming soon”: Leucadia and San Diego in Southern California, and Riverbank, in the Central Valley.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

The Tulare County elections office in the Central Valley was suddenly getting peppered with questions from baffled voters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

It says: Fresno Boy Wins Central Valley Science Fair: Next to the article is a photo of my grandfather with the caption “Melvin Sagarsky, age 15.”

From "The Fourteenth Goldfish" by Jennifer L. Holm

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