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Emily

American  
[em-uh-lee] / ˈɛm ə li /
Or Emilie

noun

  1. a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “industrious.”


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The Labour MP for Milton Keynes Central, Emily Darlington, said the news was a shock and she had always known the centre as a "very safe place"

From BBC

Milton Keynes Central MP Emily Darlington said it was "a shock" but urged people not to speculate online.

From BBC

Previous research on office romances “focused on clearly unacceptable behavior, where the lines are pretty black and white,” says Emily Nix, an associate professor of finance and business economics at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business.

From The Wall Street Journal

Felix Salmon, Elizabeth Spiers, and Emily Peck, weigh in on the decision and the ensuing confusion around what tariff refunds would actually look like.

From Slate

Perched on the edge of the rugged Yorkshire moors that inspired Emily Bronte to write her masterpiece "Wuthering Heights", the quaint village of Haworth has long been a place of literary pilgrimage.

From Barron's