Oakland
Americannoun
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a seaport in W California, on San Francisco Bay.
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a town in NE New Jersey.
noun
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The Oakland, Calif., utility posted third-quarter earnings of $776 million, or 34 cents a share, compared with $850 million, or 37 cents a share, a year earlier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
Oakland resident Assata Olugbala, 81, asked for help removing Google’s AI bot Gemini from her devices after it started offering help she hadn’t requested.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
The blazes never reached Davis itself, but sometimes they kept me from commuting home to Davis when I was working in my office in Oakland.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Olugbala, the Oakland resident who wanted to get Google Gemini off her phone, said she wants to talk to real people using her voice, not bots.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
As long as Moss had lived in West Oakland, he’d never tired of this specific view, so he pointed toward the windows.
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
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