Santa Clara
Americannoun
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a city in central Cuba.
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a city in central California, S of San Francisco.
noun
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Santa Clara University will give incoming full-time law school students an annual $16,000 scholarship “to offset the impact of recent repeal of the Graduate Plus federal-loan program.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
“Whenever I saw the Muse avatar, I could only think of a child’s toy,” Heather Turner, an associate chair and professor in the department of English at Santa Clara University, told me.
From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2026
The chip maker said on Monday that its board has approved a $150 billion increase to the Santa Clara, Calif., company’s share-repurchase program, bringing the total buyback authorization to $235 billion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
In 2022, advances in DNA technology led investigators with the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office to identify the remains of another one of Jesperson’s victims as Patricia Skiple.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
Finally Phineas takes a job plowing for a farmer near the little town of Santa Clara.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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