a member of a nomadic aboriginal people of southern Africa.
any of more than a dozen related Khoisan languages spoken by the San.
an aboriginal people of southern Africa
a group of the Khoisan languages, spoken mostly by Bushmen
< Japanese, contraction of -sama suffix denoting direction, appearance, respect
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In the San Fernando Valley’s District 3, Tim Gaspar and Barri Worth Girvan were leading the field of three candidates vying for the seat being vacated by Bob Blumenfield.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026
Horvath was ahead of three challengers in District 3, which covers much of the San Fernando Valley and Westside communities including Venice and Pacific Palisades.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026
Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled its own cutting-edge artificial intelligence models in San Francisco -- a crucial step toward reducing its dependence on OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT.
From Barron's • Jun. 2, 2026
“You can’t ignore San Francisco right now, particularly around AI infrastructure, developer tooling and frontier model ecosystems,” said Jonathan Lehr, co-founder and general partner at New York venture firm Work-Bench.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026
The Internet bubble had burst, and yet house prices in San Jose, the bubble’s epicenter, were still rising.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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