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We had dinner in Chinatown.
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Last year, a crowd in San Francisco’s Chinatown surrounded a Waymo car, vandalized it and then set it ablaze.
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Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2025
The Center City deal would have given the basketball team its own building, in a controversial development near the city’s Chinatown neighborhood that had significant local opposition.
—David Aldridge, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025
Loading your audio article The investment firm’s representative met the artificial intelligence startup’s CEO at a bank in San Francisco’s Chinatown last June, expecting to receive a statement directly from the bank showing how much the startup, chatbot company GameOn, had in its accounts.
—Ethan Baron, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2025
The resolution is part of an Adams administration effort to redesign Chinatown’s Kimlau Square and its five-way intersection at Park Row’s northern end.
—Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 23 Jan. 2025
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Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2025
The Center City deal would have given the basketball team its own building, in a controversial development near the city’s Chinatown neighborhood that had significant local opposition.
—David Aldridge, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025
Loading your audio article The investment firm’s representative met the artificial intelligence startup’s CEO at a bank in San Francisco’s Chinatown last June, expecting to receive a statement directly from the bank showing how much the startup, chatbot company GameOn, had in its accounts.
—Ethan Baron, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2025
The resolution is part of an Adams administration effort to redesign Chinatown’s Kimlau Square and its five-way intersection at Park Row’s northern end.
—Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 23 Jan. 2025
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“Chinatown.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Chinatown. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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Chinatown
noun
Chi·na·town
ˈchī-nə-ˌtau̇n 
: an area of a city where many people of Chinese ancestry live
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