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  Los Angeles

  noun

  a seaport in SW California.
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  los Angeles

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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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Earlier this month, the Los Angeles Dodgers finally diagnosed the problem that had been plaguing Roki Sasaki ever since he arrived from Japan last year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

For decades, the city of Los Angeles and private foundations have invested in preserving the towers, the 102-year-old masterpiece of folk art built by Italian immigrant Sabato “Simon” Rodia.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● 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.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

Similarly, a California study reported that an estimated 30 to 50 percent of individuals under parole supervision in San Francisco and Los Angeles were homeless.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

De los Angeles said the grant application appeared to include timber harvesting plans that the tribe never agreed to and unrealistic claims about outcomes for vulnerable communities.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 3, 2022

“The Tribe is willingly jeopardizing its ability to receive these financial resources by speaking out about Forterra’s actions,” but has “an ethical and legal duty” to do so, de los Angeles wrote.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 30, 2022

The $2 million restoration effort at Nuestra Señora de los Angeles will take at least two years more; impatient residents often ask experts why it is taking so long.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 20, 2020

Maria de los Angeles Jimenez, 29, who works at a salad-packing plant, learned how quickly the virus can spread on May 1, when her feet began to ache.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2020

Given in this convent of your Majesty of Nuestra Señora de los Angeles, of Manila, July 20, 1621.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 20 of 55 1621-1624 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. by Blair, Emma Helen