Palo Alto

[ pal-oh al-toh pah-loh ahl-toh ]

noun

1. a city in W California, SE of San Francisco.
2. a battlefield in S Texas, near Brownsville: first battle of Mexican War fought here in 1846.

Palo Alto

noun

1. ˈpæləʊ ˈæltəʊ a city in W California, southeast of San Francisco: founded in 1891 as the seat of Stanford University. Pop: 57 233 (2003 est)
2. ˈpalo ˈalto a battlefield in E Mexico, northwest of Monterrey, where the first battle (1846) of the Mexican War took place, in which the Mexicans under General Mariano Arista were defeated by the Americans under General Zachary Taylor

Example Sentences

As a young researcher, he once parked a beat-up car in a middle-class suburban neighborhood of Palo Alto, and during three days of observation, noticed that the car was left untouched.

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Within a couple of weeks of the first spraying sorties, Palo Alto police heard what sounded like gunshots as the helicopters passed overhead.

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X, formerly known as Twitter, is closing its headquarters in San Francisco and moving some of its San Francisco employees to San José and Palo Alto.

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X, formerly known as Twitter, is closing its headquarters in San Francisco and moving some of its San Francisco employees to San José and Palo Alto.

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The company is reportedly moving its headquarters to Austin but plans to relocate its San Francisco employees to San Jose and Palo Alto, where it has already listed job openings.

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