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East Los Angeles

American  

noun

  1. a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.


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Her brother opened a quinceañera shop in East Los Angeles and told her it was hers to operate.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2026

A pipeline rupture in East Los Angeles early Friday morning resulted in a crude oil spill, according to officials.

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026

Cesar E. Chavez Avenue is more than six miles, cutting through the working-class communities of Boyle Heights, East Los Angeles and Monterey Park.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2026

For two years, we lived in the attic of a family friend’s house in East Los Angeles.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

And in impoverished East Los Angeles and in Detroit and Miami and Boston and Atlanta and Dallas as well as a thousand Oshkosh's.

From Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel by Schwartau, Winn

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