Fontana

[fon-tan-uh, fawn-tah-nah]

noun

1. Domenico 1543–1607, Italian architect.

2. a city in S California.

Example Sentences

Host Francesca Fontana discusses the biggest stock moves of the week and the news that drove them.

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Write to Francesca Fontana at [email protected].

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When you see la migra unable to kick down the front door of a Nicaraguan immigrant at a Fontana apartment just a second after the man shut it in their faces, you just have to giggle at a scenario straight out of the Keystone Kops.

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Her 18th studio album, “In Times of Dragons,” out in April 2026 via Universal’s Fontana label, takes aim at what she describes as the “current abhorrent non accidental burning down of democracy in real time by the ‘Dictator believing Lizard Demons’ in their usurpation of America.”

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The big rig, which was not hauling anything at the time of the chase, was finally reined by multiple unmarked vehicles and Fontana police at Beach Boulevard and Franklin Street just after 11 a.m., where two men inside the vehicle exited at gunpoint.

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