Ochoa

American  

[oh-choh-uh, aw-chaw-ah] / oʊˈtʃoʊ ə, ɔˈtʃɔ ɑ /

noun

1. Severo 1905–93, U.S. biochemist, born in Spain: Nobel Prize in medicine 1959.

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Ochoa Scientific  

/ ō-chō′ə /

1. Spanish-born American geneticist who in 1955 discovered an enzyme that was used in the first synthesis of artificial RNA. For this work he shared with Arthur Kornberg the 1959 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine.

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Ochoa

Ontario City Manager Scott Ochoa approached the family about opening a location.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

“People are getting trapped into looking at all these videos that glamorize the industry and they forgo any other due diligence,” Ochoa said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Carlos Ochoa, better known to his 2 million TikTok followers as Laundromat Money, is credited with kick-starting the online trend five years ago when he was the fledgling owner of a Visalia, Calif., laundromat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

His videos drew dozens of aspiring food truck owners, many of them immigrants like Ochoa, who entrusted him with their life savings in hopes of turning their dreams into a livelihood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026

Just over an hour ago, Cas would never have dreamed that Frankie Ochoa would look at her with such intense concern.

From "Time Bomb" by Joelle Charbonneau

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