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- proper noun The
southern portion of the state ofCalifornia which can include Santa Barbara, and is generally separated fromNorthern California by the Tehachapi mountain range.
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Examples
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The current smell in the store is called Socal and it smells really good i have to say!
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So Standard of California, known as Socal, took up Gulf’s option to Bahrain.
The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008
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So Standard of California, known as Socal, took up Gulf’s option to Bahrain.
The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008
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"Socal" stretch high heel boot from Martinez Valero
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Who revitalized Socal Security by moving the retirement age out but making sure the year he was born in fell just before the reform.
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Kosher coke at Ralphs in Palm Springs on Sunrise Way for all the Socal people not near LA.
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In 1933, Standard Oil Company California Socal had won a concession to explore for oil.
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010
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A few years later, Socal formed a consortium with Texaco, Exxon and Mobil to manage the concession.
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010
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He was only twenty-eight years old in 1937 when he became one of a dozen geologists recruited for a three-year contract for the California Arabian Standard Oil Company—a subsidiary of Standard Oil of California Socal.
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010
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In 1984, Keller pulled off what was then the biggest merger ever, buying Gulf Oil -- a company larger than Socal -- for an astounding figure of $13.3 billion.
R.I.P. George Keller: A True Straight Talker - Swampland - TIME.com 2008
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