Hanford
Americannoun
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a city in central California.
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a locality in SE Washington, on the Columbia River: site of an atomic energy plant Hanford Works.
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Class participant Hanford, who identifies as a neurodivergent non-goth, experiences Goth Yoga LA as much more regulating than a mainstream yoga class.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 2026
His father picked crops along State Route 99 as a young man, he grew up in Sacramento, and his wife is from Hanford and Fresno.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026
Ms. Hanford is a senior policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026
Shruti Javali, a family physician at a clinic in Hanford, Calif., regularly treats patients with advanced cases of San Joaquin Valley fever, a fungal lung infection found mainly in that part of California and Arizona.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 18, 2025
Between Los Alamos, Oak Ridge, Hanford, and other secret labs around the country, the Manhattan Project was employing more than 300,000 people.
From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin
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