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Ammons

American  
[am-uhnz] / ˈæm ənz /

noun

  1. A(rchie) R(andolph), 1926–2001, U.S. poet.


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He promised Ammons a book-length treatment of his work, “if we both live.”

From The Wall Street Journal May 29, 2026

Ammons arrived in Olympia in 1971, a fresh-faced kid just a year after graduating from the University of Washington.

From Seattle Times Mar. 16, 2023

“Our website has been under constant attack for the past month and we’ve been able to keep the site up,” Mr. Ammons said on Twitter via the county clerk’s account.

From Washington Times Nov. 9, 2022

In Champaign County, Illinois, clerk Aaron Ammons would like to install metal detectors at his office, where visitors have filmed staff and the layout of the space in what he described as a threatening manner.

From Reuters Oct. 9, 2022

All at once a crowd had gathered, attracted by the leaping flames on what had been the settlement of Ammons, running to fight the threatening prairie fire.

From Land of the Burnt Thigh by Voorhies, Stephen J.

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