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Wharton

American  
[hwawr-tn, wawr-] / ˈʰwɔr tn, ˈwɔr- /

noun

  1. Edith 1862–1937, U.S. novelist.


Wharton British  
/ ˈwɔːtən /

noun

  1. Edith ( Newbold ). 1862–1937, US novelist; author of The House of Mirth (1905) and Ethan Frome (1911)

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Adam Wharton hit the bar for Palace with the goal gaping as Penders was again caught badly out of position when Strasbourg lost the ball on the edge of their own box.

From Barron's

Matt Killingsworth, a senior fellow at the Wharton School, conducts large-scale studies on money and happiness using real-time data.

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Matt Killingsworth, a senior fellow at the Wharton School, conducts large-scale studies on money and happiness using real-time data.

From MarketWatch

It marks another step in her return to public life and also reflects her style, with the event beginning with a poem read by Alex Wharton, former children's laureate for Wales.

From BBC

Wharton M.B.A. students told us that in their hybrid offices, if the boss came in, they did too; if the boss’s camera was on in meetings, so was theirs.

From The Wall Street Journal