Sanford
Americannoun
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Mount, a mountain in SE Alaska. 16,208 feet (4,940 meters).
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a city in E Florida.
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a town in SW Maine.
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a city in central North Carolina.
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a male given name.
Example Sentences
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"When you upregulate SORLA, you can suppress the negative effects found in tauopathies," said Huijie Huang, PhD, a staff scientist in the Huang lab at Sanford Burnham Prebys and lead author of the study.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 20, 2026
Operating at the former Homestake Gold Mine site, the Sanford Underground Research Facility is America’s deepest underground science lab.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
BeachLife founder Allen Sanford, a South Bay native, says the festival is not trying to replicate Coachella or even genre-specific events like Ozzfest or Warped Tour.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2026
When I finished my Ph.D., a friend at Sanford C. Bernstein told me they were hiring analytical people and that the firm had my kind of DNA.
From Barron's ● Apr. 30, 2026
I learned about Sanford and Son from Lewis's collection.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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