Menlo Park

[ men-loh ]

noun

1. a city in W California, near San Francisco.
2. a village in central New Jersey, SE of Plainfield: site of Thomas Edison's laboratory, 1876–87.

Example Sentences

Pritzker, speaking Tuesday, pointed out that he was born at Stanford Hospital and raised in the Northern California communities of Menlo Park and Atherton as he welcomed delegates to Chicago.

From Los Angeles Times

Once described as the "most important Googler you've never heard of", Ms Wojcicki was present at the company's beginnings when, in 1998, she rented out her Menlo Park garage to the search engine firm's founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page.

From BBC

That led to a position on a team at IBM secretly designing the world’s fastest supercomputer, a pet project of IBM President Thomas Watson Jr. Conway moved with the team to Menlo Park, Calif., in the years before the surrounding landscape was dubbed Silicon Valley.

From Los Angeles Times

And apparently, it has recently been spotted testing this drone in and around Menlo Park.

From New York Times

"As these young brains undergo significant changes, our findings suggest that poor sleep and high social media engagement could potentially alter neural reward sensitivity," said Orsolya Kiss, who has a doctorate in cognitive psychology and is a research scientist at SRI International in Menlo Park, California.

From Science Daily