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Emporia

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[em-pawr-ee-uh, -pohr-] / ɛmˈpɔr i ə, -ˈpoʊr- /

noun

  1. a city in E Kansas.


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Tyson’s Emporia, Kan., plant, initially slated to close in 2008, continued operating with fewer workers then closed for good this year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025

He previously spent eight years as defensive coordinator at Emporia State.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 24, 2023

“None of the majors we stopped doing were bad majors,” said Brent Thomas, who was recently promoted to provost at Emporia State.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 16, 2022

Grizzard's father, Claude Umstead Parrish, was a Merita Bread salesman who went in on a commercial bakery in Emporia, Virginia in 1941 with $15 and sweat equity.

From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2022

There were local newspapers that she had sent him and a Alumnus Bulletin from Emporia State College.

From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers

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