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Pleasanton

American  
[plez-uhn-tuhn] / ˈplɛz ən tən /

noun

  1. a town in W California.


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Software giant Oracle has shed more than 700 workers in Santa Monica, Redwood City, Pleasanton and Santa Clara, filings to the California Employment Development Department show.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

An extremist animal rights group claimed responsibility for the incidents at the Chiron biotechnology corporation in Emeryville and the Shaklee nutritional products corporation in Pleasanton.

From BBC • Dec. 8, 2025

Mendoza interned at Acre Investment Company, a real-estate investment firm in Pleasanton, Calif., the summer before his sophomore year.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

Then on 24 April this year, a family-of-four was killed in a crash in Pleasanton, California.

From BBC • Dec. 18, 2024

How many out there today, across that silent field: There was Pleasanton, of the cavalry, and Newton, new commander of the First Corps.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara