Salinas

[ suh-lee-nuhs ]

/ səˈli nəs /

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noun

a city in W California.

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How to use Salinas in a sentence

While text classification capabilities are being used for economic intelligence and financial data extraction, per Salinas.
NLPCloud.io helps devs add language processing smarts to their apps|Natasha Lomas|April 9, 2021|TechCrunch
Cooled by coastal mists rolling off the Pacific, the Salinas valley is sometimes called America’s Salad Bowl.
How technology might finally start telling farmers things they didn’t already know|Katie McLean|December 18, 2020|MIT Technology Review
When GeoVisual first got to Salinas, in 2017, “we came in promising the future, and then we didn’t deliver,” says Charles McGregor, its 27-year-old general manager.
How technology might finally start telling farmers things they didn’t already know|Katie McLean|December 18, 2020|MIT Technology Review
In Salinas, the challenge of making big data relevant to farm managers is also about consolidating the universe of information farms already collect—or, perhaps, don’t.
How technology might finally start telling farmers things they didn’t already know|Katie McLean|December 18, 2020|MIT Technology Review

Because we’re not doing it, what you see are pictures like the one that went viral of two girls sitting outside of a Taco Bell in Salinas, California, not for lunch—they were there because they were using the free Wi-Fi signal.
Why the “homework gap” is key to America’s digital divide|Tanya Basu|October 13, 2020|MIT Technology Review
Salinas was the home town of John Steinbeck, author of The Grapes of Wrath and great chronicler of Depression-era California.
The Golden State Is Crumbling|Joel Kotkin|September 2, 2011|DAILY BEAST
Today for many in hardscrabble, majority-Latino Salinas, home to 150,000 people, The Grapes of Wrath is less lyrical than real.
The Golden State Is Crumbling|Joel Kotkin|September 2, 2011|DAILY BEAST
Most of the laborers employed in the salinas suffer from diseases of the skin and rheumatism.
Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests|J. J. von Tschudi
The Indians, when they come from the mountains to convey salt, never take their llamas to the salinas.
Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests|J. J. von Tschudi
Presently we rode past a long chain of salinas, which glittered and sparkled whitely in the sun.
Wanderings in Patagonia|Julius Beerbohm
That night we slept on Salinas Plain, and the next morning reached Monterey.
The Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Complete|William T. Sherman
It is described as resembling the salinas of New Mexico, and the quantity of salt as inexhaustible.
Early Western Travels 1748-1846, Volume XX|Various