Sesto San Giovanni

[ ses-toh san joh-vah-nee; Italian se-staw sahn jaw-vahn-nee ]

/ ˈsɛs toʊ ˌsæn dʒoʊˈvɑ ni; Italian ˈsɛ stɔ ˌsɑn dʒɔˈvɑn ni /

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a city in Lombardy, N Italy: a suburb of Milan.

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San Francisco was the first city to pass one in 2006; since then, 14 other cities and three states have followed suit.
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And now Portland, Los Angeles, and San Francisco are all suing Uber for refusing to play by their old regulatory playbooks.
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Race is the San Andreas Fault of our culture as well as our history.
The Wildly Peaceful, Human, Almost Boring, Ultimately Great New York City Protests for Eric Garner|Mike Barnicle|December 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Last year in San Diego, they sported bloody pants and angry signs.
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Lynchburg is a six-month-old German sausage and ale house in the heart of Panama's San Francisco neighborhood.
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San Antonio de Bexar lies in a fertile and well-irrigated valley, stretching westward from the river Salado.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
Columbus found the natives of San Salvador smoking after this manner.
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The five hundred men whom we had left in San Antonio de Bexar, fared no better.
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The jagged top and spurs of San Jacinto Mountain shone like the turrets and posterns of a citadel built of rubies.
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On a shelf near one of these windows stood the little Madonna, again wreathed with vines as in San Pasquale.
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