Empson
Americannoun
noun
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Empson, a 56-year-old British driving instructor, and Sharon Wilkinson, 60, had their dream wedding on the beach.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026
Other faithfuls - YouTube star Niko Omilana, and actress Tameka Empson - were both already voted out at previous roundtables.
From BBC • Oct. 16, 2025
“Colleagues have enjoyed a taste of independence, if not of freedom,” says Laura Empson, a professor of the management of professional service firms at Bayes Business School at City, University of London.
From New York Times • May 11, 2023
English literary critic William Empson gave the title “Seven Types of Ambiguity” to his classic analysis of how poems differ from, say, toaster-oven instruction manuals.
From Washington Post • May 21, 2021
He lifts an opinion from Coleridge, takes something else from Frye or Empson or Leavis.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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