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San Diego

American  
[san dee-ey-goh] / ˌsæn diˈeɪ goʊ /

noun

  1. a seaport in SW California: naval and marine base.


San Diego British  
/ ˌsæn dɪˈeɪɡəʊ /

noun

  1. a port in S California, on the Pacific: naval base; two universities. Pop: 1 266 753 (2003 est)

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San Diego Cultural  
  1. City in southern California close to the border of Mexico.


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San Diego is a cultural, educational, and medical and scientific research center; a major port and naval base; and home of the San Diego Zoo.

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A north San Diego County resident said rumbling from the temblor lasted about 15 seconds.

From Los Angeles Times

NASA's SpaceX Crew-11 mission has successfully concluded with a safe splashdown in the Pacific Ocean early Thursday morning, just off the coast of San Diego.

From Science Daily

Chen’s career took him from Reno to Fresno to San Diego over those years and finally to L.A., where his favorite assignment wound up being the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing.

From Los Angeles Times

He started at guard on Dec. 9 at San Diego, just his third game in the rotation.

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The research was conducted by a team at Mass General Brigham in collaboration with researchers from the University of California San Diego and was published on January 7 in Nature Microbiology.

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