Santa Cruz
Americannoun
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a city on the coast of California.
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an island in NW Santa Barbara Islands.
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a city in central Bolivia.
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a province of S Argentina, on the Atlantic: consists of a large part of Patagonia, with the forested foothills of the Andes in the west Capital: Río Gallegos. Pop: 206 897 (2000 est). Area: 243 940 sq km (94 186 sq miles)
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a city in E Bolivia: the second largest town in Bolivia. Pop: 1 352 000 (2005 est)
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another name for Saint Croix
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Example Sentences
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Santa Cruz tried out the surveillance company Flock Safety for a little over a year before deciding it was time to move on.
From Los Angeles Times
Researchers selected 23 hybrid tortoises with the closest genetic links to the extinct subspecies and began breeding them in captivity on Santa Cruz island.
From BBC
Dana Frank, a University of California, Santa Cruz history professor who studies Honduras, described him as a “repressive criminal on multiple fronts.”
From Salon
At the University of California, Santa Cruz, the “Visualizing Abolition” project promotes research and art that calls for the elimination of prisons with the support of $8 million from Mellon.
In the fourth quarter, net income at Pacific Valley fell 28%, as it hired more employees and incurred costs related to a fourth branch it opened in Santa Cruz.
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