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Stan·ford

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1. Stanford, Leland Stanford(noun)

   United States railroad executive and founder of Stanford University (1824-1893)

2. Stanford University, Stanford(noun)

   a university in California

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1. Stanford(ProperNoun)

   transferred from the surname.

   Etymology: Various place names from stān + ford.

2. Stanford(ProperNoun)

   A private university in the Bay Area of California.

   Etymology: Various place names from stān + ford.

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1. Stanford

   Stanford is a census-designated place in Santa Clara County, California, United States and is the home of Stanford University. The population was 13,809 at the 2010 census, with a daily population of 35,000. Stanford is an unincorporated area of Santa Clara County and is adjacent to the city of Palo Alto. Stanford, California is a valid postal address, and has its own post office and ZIP codes: 94305 and 94309. A popular landmark is the Dish. Most of the Stanford University campus is situated within the CDP of Stanford. The Stanford University Medical Center and the Stanford Shopping Center, on the campus periphery, are counted as part of Palo Alto. Its resident population consists of the inhabitants of on-campus housing, including graduate student villages and the "Faculty Ghetto" of single-family homes owned by their faculty inhabitants but located on leased Stanford land. A residential neighborhood adjacent to the Stanford campus, College Terrace, featuring streets named after universities and colleges, including Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard and Princeton, is not part of the Stanford CDP but of Palo Alto.

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1. stanford

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How to pronounce Stanford?

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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

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   Karen

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   Veena

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Stanford in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Stanford in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of Stanford in a Sentence

1. John Hennessy:

   The time has come to return to what brought me to Stanford University – teaching and research.

2. Paul Nickel:

   I always knew he was going to be some type of leader in some way. He was entrepreneurial, very engaging, when Paul Nickel're at Stanford Cardinal, Paul Nickel run across a lot of guys like Stanford Cardinal.

3. John Sheahan:

   I personally don’t think we’re ever going to be satisfied with the why, said John Sheahan, a former sergeant and SWAT team officer with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. We're talking about someone who has never had a lot of friends, kept to himself, and had all the finances in the world to do what he was going to do. Since the shooting, The FBI and police investigators have interviewed hundreds of witnesses, including Paddock's girlfriend Mary Lou Danley. They also looked into his gun buying history, taken apart his computer and even sent his brain to Stanford University for detailed forensic examination. But in recent weeks, authorities have provided little to no insight into the status of their investigation. The FBI’s Las Vegas field office did not respond to Fox News ’ request for an interview while the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department declined to take part in one. When we have more information to provide, we will let everybody know, LVMPD Officer Larry Hadfield told Fox News. But John Sheahan warns there may never be new information to release. Police investigators want to give the public answers. It takes the monkey off your backs.

4. Roger Kay:

   Endpoint Technologies ' Kay want to have just one or two individuals responsible for the account, they should be named individuals, so that if there’s a problem, Roger Kay can go to those people. Tim Junio, a cybersecurity fellow at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, also highlighted the risks posed by weak passwords.

5. Brad Null:

   If I'm in a pool with a bunch of people who went to college at Stanford, you know half of them are going to pick Stanford to win it all.

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