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Emmaus

American  
[uh-mey-uhs] / əˈmeɪ əs /

noun

  1. a city in E Pennsylvania.


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This marks the fourth year the Emmaus community has supported Herts for Refugees in its ongoing festival salvage work.

From BBC • Jun. 25, 2025

The Emmaus movement, which he founded in 1949, operates in more than 40 countries.

From BBC • Sep. 9, 2024

She paid attention to a Biden visit earlier this year to a nearby town, Emmaus, where he stopped at local stores to discuss the importance of supporting small businesses.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 17, 2024

In Emmaus, Biden recounted to reporters that one of the business owners he spoke with had confided to him that “I can look at my kid now and say: ‘It’s going to be OK.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 5, 2024

It had not happened when they left Jerusalem for Emmaus; or, at least, they had not heard of it.

From An Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists by Greenleaf, Simon

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