Los Angeles
a seaport in SW California.
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How to use Los Angeles in a sentence
The dog walker, whom authorities declined to identify, was taken to a hospital by Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics, and remains in stable condition, Los Angeles Police Capt.
Lady Gaga offers half a million dollars for her stolen French bulldogs after walker was ambushed | Paulina Villegas | February 26, 2021 | Washington PostMeyers returned to the Merchant Marine after the war and studied at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles before building and designing boats, including his own 42-foot catamaran.
Bruce Meyers, creator of the first fiberglass dune buggy, dies at 94 | Harrison Smith | February 25, 2021 | Washington PostIn 1991, a Korean American convenience store owner in Los Angeles accused 15-year-old Latasha Harlins of shoplifting before fatally shooting her.
‘Nobody came, nobody helped’: Fears of anti-Asian violence rattle the community | Marian Liu, Rachel Hatzipanagos | February 25, 2021 | Washington Post“This is a big day, a new day — a new beginning,” said ViacomCBS chairman Shari Redstone, speaking from a virtual presentation on the Paramount lot in Los Angeles.
With Paramount Plus, ViacomCBS marshals new weapons in the streaming wars | Steven Zeitchik | February 25, 2021 | Washington PostDuring his two dozen years as a House member from Los Angeles, Becerra supported the idea of a single-payer health-care system, along the lines of Medicare-for-all plans advocated by several Democratic candidates in last year’s presidential primary.
Becerra commits to private-sector Medicare but indicates it is too generous | Amy Goldstein, Brittany Shammas | February 25, 2021 | Washington Post
The effort to sterilize his image first began when Epstein hired Los Angeles-based spin doctors Sitrick Co.
Sleazy Billionaire’s Double Life Featured Beach Parties With Stephen Hawking | M.L. Nestel | January 8, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTThe memoir follows Oswalt from 1995 to 1999 as he was starting out on his comedy career in Los Angeles.
Patton Oswalt on Fighting Conservatives With Satire | William O’Connor | January 6, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTThe End of Gangs By Sam Quinones, Pacific-Standard Los Angeles gave America the modern street gang.
The Daily Beast’s Best Longreads, Dec 29-Jan 4, 2014 | William Boot | January 4, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd now Portland, Los Angeles, and San Francisco are all suing Uber for refusing to play by their old regulatory playbooks.
Why Do ‘Progressives’ Want to Ban Uber and AirBnB? | Adam Thierer, Christopher Koopman | December 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSimilar reinforced plinths were developed by the Getty museums in Los Angeles to absorb the seismic movements there.
Los Angeles is a little Chicago and may live to be a big one, but nothing would induce me to live in the south.
Ancestors | Gertrude AthertonThere would be pleasure as well as profit in driving this old girl to Los Angeles, he told himself.
Cabin Fever | B. M. BowerThe faces left on the platform at Los Angeles began to look kinder and more attractive.
My Wonderful Visit | Charlie ChaplinTom is a great friend of mine and we have spent many a pleasant hour in Doug's home in Los Angeles.
My Wonderful Visit | Charlie ChaplinI discover that everything is Los Angeles in my compartment, with the exception of my cousin and Sonny.
My Wonderful Visit | Charlie Chaplin
British Dictionary definitions for los Angeles (1 of 2)
/ (Spanish los ˈaŋxeles) /
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British Dictionary definitions for Los Angeles (2 of 2)
/ (lɒs ˈændʒɪˌliːz) /
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): Abbreviation: LA
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Cultural definitions for Los Angeles
[ (lawss an-juh-luhs) ]
City in southern California, sprawling over nearly five hundred square miles.
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