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Weems

American  
[weemz] / wimz /

noun

  1. Mason Locke Parson Weems, 1759–1825, U.S. clergyman and biographer.


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For 24-year-old clipper Ethan Weems from Wichita, Kansas, it's a lucrative side hustle to his other video-making work.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

As you approach, listen closely: Weems also commissioned an original jazz piece, “The Obama Suite,” which plays in the background.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026

Most famously, Parson Weems invented from whole cloth the story about young Washington taking a hatchet to his father’s cherry tree, then confessing to it.

From Slate ● Feb. 16, 2026

Weems acknowledged that the meme contained no explicit threats and that his department knew it referenced a real Iowa tragedy.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2025

The kids at school Monday would probably whisper around him and treat him with respect—the way they’d all treated Billy Joe Weems last year after his father had been killed in a car crash.

From "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson

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