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Pleasanton

[ plez-uhn-tuhn ]

noun

  1. a town in W California.


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Suburbia was so predictable and pleasant that their California town, just 30 miles southeast of Oakland, is actually named Pleasanton, as if the homes were cast from ticky tacky.

An experienced runner collapsed and died outside Pleasanton in August after temperatures soared above 100 degrees.

Pleasanton and his men inflicted much damage and then left in orderly fashion.

General Pleasanton, commanding the cavalry, was sent with his entire force to look into the matter.

The same type of land, "covered with grass and trees," continued as far as Pleasanton.

Since there is no mention of the coast, the route must have been the well-known inland trail through Pleasanton and Dublin.

Pleasanton, commanding the artillery, brings sixteen guns to bear upon the advancing troops.

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