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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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The change in the net-sales guidance was because of a recent fire at the company’s Emporia, Kan., manufacturing facility.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 26, 2026

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

From Seattle Times Jan. 24, 2023

Emporia State projects a budget gap of $5.6 million this academic year, a spokesperson said, even after cutting almost $9 million in the last five years.

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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