Menlo Park
Americannoun
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a city in W California, near San Francisco.
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a village in central New Jersey, SE of Plainfield: site of Thomas Edison's laboratory, 1876–87.
Example Sentences
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Based in Menlo Park, Calif., and Waltham, Mass., Oruka has two injectable drugs in clinical trials whose advantages could win sales even though the first of these won’t be up for approval by the U.S.
From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026
Sequoia Capital, a venture firm that displays a glass-encased Ferragamo black jacket of Huang’s at its Menlo Park headquarters, brokered a meeting between Laskin and Huang.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026
Meta is based in Menlo Park, Calif., though it has been incorporated in Delaware since Facebook’s founding in 2004.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026
Less than a mile away from the Meta Campus, Menlo Park residents on Wednesday woke up to rising knee-deep floodwaters and possible evacuation warnings.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 24, 2025
She once conducted another experiment in which she set up a tasting booth with a variety of exotic gourmet jams at the upscale grocery store Draeger’s in Menlo Park, California.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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