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

Brown grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, then studied engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

San Francisco Bay Area residents, living in the beating heart of the artificial intelligence boom, are just as conflicted about the technology as the rest of the country.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

The San Francisco Bay Area resident has also had a longtime home in San Francisco’s Pacific Heights neighborhood.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

Optimism abounds, even on the city website, which promotes it as “one of the fastest growing suburbs of the San Francisco Bay Area.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

Although the San Francisco Bay was a swimming pool in comparison to Lake Michigan, with mounds of land on the far side that looked close enough to swim to.

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman

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