San Francisco Bay

American  

noun

1. a bay in western California: the harbor of San Francisco; connected with the Pacific Ocean by the Golden Gate strait. 50 miles (80 kilometers) long; 3–12 miles (5–19 kilometers) wide.

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San Francisco Bay British  

noun

1. an inlet of the Pacific in W California, linked with the open sea by the Golden Gate strait. Length: about 80 km (50 miles). Greatest width: 19 km (12 miles)

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San Francisco Bay Cultural  

1. Located in northern California; entered from the Pacific Ocean through a strait called the Golden Gate.

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San Francisco Bay

Tesla now offers limited unsupervised rideshare services in at least three cities — Austin, Dallas and Houston — and supervised trips in California’s San Francisco Bay Area.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026

It might not quite be the 4th of July, but the co-hosts head to San Francisco Bay in bullish mood, despite the narrow loss to Turkey in their final dead-rubber group game.

From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026

It helped me move to the San Francisco Bay Area for my first grown-up job.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026

Before that, she was a corporate beat reporter in Chicago covering restaurants and the food industry and worked at newspapers in Detroit, Portland, Ore., and the San Francisco Bay Area.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

The whole of San Francisco Bay spread out before us: the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz Island, and the green hills and fog beyond that to the north.

From "The Titan's Curse" by Rick Riordan