Empson
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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But if anyone can, he’s the guy,” Empson remembers the guide saying.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026
He said he had "fleeting suspicions" about Carr and Tameka Empson at the very beginning of the game.
From BBC • Oct. 27, 2025
“Too much informality could be undermining,” Ms. Empson said.
From New York Times • May 11, 2023
In “Missing Dates,” a haunting villanelle about helpless love and despair, William Empson writes: “Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills./ The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.”
From Washington Post • Mar. 10, 2020
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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