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California

[kal-uh-fawrn-yuh, -fawr-nee-uh] / ˌkæl əˈfɔrn yə, -ˈfɔr ni ə /


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As ballots land in mailboxes, California voters are finally tuning in to the race to lead the nation’s most populous state and fourth-largest economy in the world.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026

No candidate has polled higher than 20-some percent — a testament to how many are in the running, but also an indication that none of them has truly captured the zeitgeist of today’s California.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026

It’s a concept historically antithetical to California, long boosted as the land of today and tomorrow by everyone from the Mission fathers to orange barons, developers to politicians.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026

In research published in March 2026, I examined millions of meteor detections recorded by all sky camera systems in Canada, Japan, California and Europe.

From Science Daily • May 14, 2026

“Hello, I’m Akira Kristiansen,” she said at last, “and I survived the Morris Fire in California last year.”

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz



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