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Pleasanton

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

noun

  1. a town in W California.


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Her byline has appeared in LAist, the Pleasanton Weekly, Peninsula Press and the Bulletin magazine.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026

Pleasanton, Calif.-based Workday’s stock, which is down about 40% this year, has been battered by investor fears that artificial intelligence chatbots and large language models will make conventional business software obsolete.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

Unemployed tech worker Tinner was laid off from Workday, a Pleasanton company that provides a platform to businesses, universities and organizations to manage payroll, benefits, finances and other tasks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2026

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

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

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