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Cerritos

American  
[suh-ree-tuhs] / səˈri təs /

noun

  1. a city in SW California.


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Chuong Vo served as the mayor of Cerritos while a member of the city council from 2020 to 2025.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

The Cerritos, Calif.-based company’s net sales of $324 million were up 10% in the three months ended Dec. 31 compared with a year earlier, the seventh consecutive quarter of sales gains.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

The place we now know as Cerritos was once named “Dairy Valley” and was home to not quite 3,500 people and 100,000 cows.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2026

Using the same parameters, the typical Cerritos College student is able to recoup it in a little less than two months.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2025

One late afternoon in the summer after her first year at USC— her junior year, given all her Cypress credits—she took Mitchell to the movies at the Cerritos mall.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

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