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Monterey

[mon-tuh-rey]

noun

  1. a city in W California, on Monterey Bay: the capital of California until 1847.

  2. Monterey Jack.



Monterey

/ ˌɒԳəˈɪ /

noun

  1. a city in W California: capital of Spain's Pacific empire from 1774 to 1825; taken by the US (1846). Pop: 29 960 (2003 est)

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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On the same March 3 morning, the county asked for help identifying a wisp-thin elderly man with a grizzled beard and swollen black eye who’d been found in Monterey Park’s Edison Trails Park.

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About 300 pilings were destroyed, with some barnacle-covered beams turning up in the Monterey Harbor, 25 miles south.

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The estimated potential casualty tolls could be 16 in Monterey County and seven in Santa Barbara County.

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Stevenson High in Monterey won the team title.

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From his prison cell in Monterey County, Sanchez, 58, used contraband cellphones to direct one of the largest drug trafficking organizations in Alaska history, federal authorities say.

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