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Los Angeles

[ laws an-juh-luhs, -leez, losor, often, laws ang-guh-luhs, -leez, los ]

noun

  1. a seaport in SW California.


Los Angeles

1

/ lɒs ˈændʒɪˌliːz /

noun

  1. a city in SW California, on the Pacific: the second largest city in the US, having absorbed many adjacent townships; industrial centre and port, with several universities. Pop: 3 819 951 (2003 est) LA


los Angeles

2

/ los ˈaŋxeles /

Los Angeles

  1. City in southern California , sprawling over nearly five hundred square miles.


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Notes

The scene of the Watts Riots in 1965 and of another serious riot in 1992, triggered by the acquittal of white police officers accused of beating an African-American man named Rodney King.
A center of the entertainment industry; Hollywood is a district of Los Angeles.
Second most populous city in the United States.
Los Angeles suffers from serious smog pollution created by industry and large numbers of automobiles.

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Example Sentences

The effort to sterilize his image first began when Epstein hired Los Angeles-based spin doctors Sitrick Co.

The memoir follows Oswalt from 1995 to 1999 as he was starting out on his comedy career in Los Angeles.

The End of Gangs By Sam Quinones, Pacific-Standard Los Angeles gave America the modern street gang.

And now Portland, Los Angeles, and San Francisco are all suing Uber for refusing to play by their old regulatory playbooks.

Similar reinforced plinths were developed by the Getty museums in Los Angeles to absorb the seismic movements there.

Los Angeles is a little Chicago and may live to be a big one, but nothing would induce me to live in the south.

There would be pleasure as well as profit in driving this old girl to Los Angeles, he told himself.

The faces left on the platform at Los Angeles began to look kinder and more attractive.

Tom is a great friend of mine and we have spent many a pleasant hour in Doug's home in Los Angeles.

I discover that everything is Los Angeles in my compartment, with the exception of my cousin and Sonny.

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