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UCLA en · PROPN

Pronunciation

  • /ˌju.si.ɛlˈeɪ/

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of University of California, Los Angeles.
    • Representatives from UCLA are Sunny Merrill and Ken Gallagher who will appear tonight on Peter Potter’s “College Corner” program, which will poll the most popular record according to West Coast collegiennes on KHJ from 10:30 to 11. 1947 December 3, Daily Bruin, volume XXXII, number 51, Los Angeles, Calif.: University of California at Los Angeles, page 1:
    • Chris Tilly, a labor economist at UCLA, said the shortages among burger-flippers and cashiers is notable “because those low-end jobs more typically have a labor surplus.” 2021 September 7, Ben Finley, Tom Krisher, “Amid labor shortage, union workers feeling emboldened: Organized workers bargaining for higher pay, improved benefits”, in Sun Journal, Lewiston, Me., page B4, column 5:
    • None of the processing happens out in the open ocean, said Gaurav Sant, an Equatic founder and professor of sustainability at UCLA, “this is important because it allows you to measure everything that you’re doing perfectly.” 2024 April 21, Laura Paddison, “Can this ocean-based carbon plant help save the world? Some scientists are raising red flags”, in CNN:
    • State begins fouling and UCLA misses a couple of front-end free throws on one-and-ones. 2009, Brandon Lang, Stanley Cohen, Beating the Odds: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of a Sports Handicapper, →ISBN:
    • A 2021 academic study led by UCLA academics identified Pinker as one of the “political centrists” who have “played a role in legitimizing the ideas of the human biodiversity movement” in a way that has benefited white nationalists, despite not being core proponents themselves. 2025 June 7, Jason Wilson, “Harvard author Steven Pinker appears on podcast linked to scientific racism”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

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wikidata: Q174710