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[emp-tee] / ˈɛmp ti /






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Maybe the answer to slumping sales and customer fatigue isn’t splashy, headline-grabbing hires or empty collabs.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

There is the issue of empty shops too.

From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026

After the raids, the quinceañera shops, normally packed with girls and doting mothers on weekends, often sat empty.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2026

Writing about the fortifying effect of pairing oysters with cold white wine in “A Moveable Feast,” Ernest Hemingway declared, “I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026

In the doorway of my assigned room on the third floor I could see the dim outline of a body in the bed closest to the door and an empty bed closer to the window.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse




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