Pasadena
Americannoun
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a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
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a city in SE Texas, near Houston.
noun
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Gonzales-Torres, 31, previously worked as a part-time counselor for formerly incarcerated Pasadena City College students, interned in Mayor Karen Bass’s administration and volunteered on the Metro Public Safety Advisory Committee.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
“New Girl” star Jake Johnson is bidding farewell to his Pasadena, Calif., property for $3.3 million.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026
The Pasadena, Calif., company is focused on building a large-scale, fault-tolerant, error-corrected quantum computer it says will deliver on the commercial promises of quantum computing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
The pair pleaded not guilty at a Pasadena courthouse, the BBC's US partner CBS News reported.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
"And you're bringing this up with me while Venkat is in Pasadena, so he can't argue the other side."
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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