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  Los Angeles

  noun

  a seaport in SW California.
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Los Angeles

American  

[laws an-juh-luhs, -leez, los, laws ang-guh-luhs, -leez, los] / lɔs ˈæn dʒə ləs, -ˌliz, lɒs, lɔs ˈæŋ gə ləs, -ˌliz, lɒs /

noun

1. a seaport in SW California.

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Los Angeles ¹ British  

/ lɒs ˈændʒɪˌliːz /

noun

1.  LA.  a city in SW California, on the Pacific: the second largest city in the US, having absorbed many adjacent townships; industrial centre and port, with several universities. Pop: 3 819 951 (2003 est)

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los Angeles ² British  

/ los ˈaŋxeles /

noun

1. See de los Angeles

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Los Angeles Cultural  

1. City in southern California, sprawling over nearly five hundred square miles.

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The scene of the Watts Riots in 1965 and of another serious riot in 1992, triggered by the acquittal of white police officers accused of beating an African-American man named Rodney King.

A center of the entertainment industry; Hollywood is a district of Los Angeles.

Second most populous city in the United States.

Los Angeles suffers from serious smog pollution created by industry and large numbers of automobiles.

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Journalist and documentarian Jessica Sartenaer said in the segment published Wednesday that the BBC began its investigation into allegations against Leto after noting an Instagram story from a prominent DJ based in Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

When the Los Angeles Dodgers celebrated on the field after winning the World Series in October 2024, there was one person notably missing from the festivities: Mark Walter, the team’s owner.

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Homes in New York City and Los Angeles were the second- and third-most viewed by prospective international home buyers.

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Here are other key revelations contained in the recently released court filings about how the “Operation at Large” immigration crackdown in Los Angeles was orchestrated last year.

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According to shirts, there are protests taking place in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston, and Philadelphia.

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But their feelings about the train began to change when government officials contracted local people to build the track, De los Angeles said.

From Seattle Times ● May 30, 2024

"The strike is extended because negotiations are blocked," said union leader Maria de los Angeles Rodriguez.

From Reuters ● Jun. 23, 2023

In a Sept. 23 letter to the USDA, tribal chair Robert M. de los Angeles also said the tribe is concerned that Forterra may have “tokenized” other partners in order to obtain the grant.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 30, 2022

María de los Angeles Resendiz, a grandmother of 10 from the state of Mexico, will support López Obrador without hesitation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2021

Antonio de Soria came from the convent at Puebla de los Angeles, Mexico.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 30 of 55 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XXX, 1640 by Abreu, Antonio Alvarez de