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  • Fremont
    Fremont
    noun
    a city in W California, near San Francisco Bay.
  • Frémont
    Frémont
    noun
    John Charles, 1813–90, U.S. general and explorer: first Republican presidential candidate, 1856.

Fremont

1 American  
[free-mont] / ˈfri mɒnt /

noun

  1. a city in W California, near San Francisco Bay.

  2. a city in E Nebraska, on the Platte River, near Omaha.

  3. a city in N Ohio.


Frémont 2 American  
[free-mont] / ˈfri mɒnt /

noun

  1. John Charles, 1813–90, U.S. general and explorer: first Republican presidential candidate, 1856.


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Nicole Newcomer, a 40-year-old food-service manager from Fremont, Ohio, ended up at the hospital this week.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

Ying, from Fremont, near San Francisco, was also found to have a number of library cards in different names.

From Barron's Jul. 8, 2026

As for robots, Tesla recently stopped selling the Model S and Model X vehicles to convert the Fremont, California, manufacturing capacity into a facility to mass-produce robots.

From Barron's Jun. 15, 2026

Fremont used to be a baseball power, having won five upper-division City titles, the last in 1963.

From Los Angeles Times May 22, 2026

Thula gave him another ultimatum, and finally Harry did find a job, as head mechanic with the Golden Rule Dairy and Bakery in Fremont.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

There, in 1847, Andres Pico and John C. Frémont signed the treaty that ceded part of Mexico to the U.S., altering the shape of both countries.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 25, 2025

For their candidate, they chose the explorer John C. Frémont of California.

From New York Times Dec. 21, 2022

President and Vice-Chancellor Jacques Frémont issued a statement on Sunday confirming Perron’s passing a day earlier in Toronto.

From Fox News Sep. 21, 2021

They also sent John C. Frémont, half of the subject of this fine new book by Steve Inskeep, as one of California’s inaugural senators.

From Washington Post Jan. 23, 2020

The highest number for Mr. Frémont was 16.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. by Various

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