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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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
They are the Hanford office, which covers the San Joaquin Valley, including Fresno and Bakersfield; and the Sacramento office, which also covers Stockton, Modesto, Vallejo, Chico and Redding.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 16, 2025
The staff reductions mean that the Hanford and Sacramento weather service offices no longer have enough staff to consistently operate on their own overnight and need to be covered by neighboring offices.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 16, 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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