Palo Alto
Americannoun
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a city in W California, SE of San Francisco.
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a battlefield in S Texas, near Brownsville: first battle of Mexican War fought here in 1846.
noun
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a city in W California, southeast of San Francisco: founded in 1891 as the seat of Stanford University. Pop: 57 233 (2003 est)
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a battlefield in E Mexico, northwest of Monterrey, where the first battle (1846) of the Mexican War took place, in which the Mexicans under General Mariano Arista were defeated by the Americans under General Zachary Taylor
Example Sentences
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He grew up in the Bay Area and, after an early career stint reporting on the videogame industry, interned at his hometown paper, Palo Alto Weekly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
The type of cybersecurity services ServiceNow offers is materially different from the endpoint security that CrowdStrike specializes in or the network-security solutions that Palo Alto Networks sells.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 2, 2026
According to the Palo Alto police department, the other driver was uninjured, neither driver was impaired and no one was cited.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
The Times article interviews some of the residents of Channing House, an assisted-living facility in Palo Alto, California, many of whom are well aware of what’s going on, and they are not happy.
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026
Aron lived in a furnished room in Palo Alto, and he walked the mile to and from the campus every day.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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