emporium
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As for the merchandise emporium, well … that’s where the credit card starts heating up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2026
“For whatever is grown and made among each people cannot fail to be here at all times and in abundance,” he wrote, “so that the city appears a kind of common emporium of the world.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2025
Have you ever wanted to put a little action on a game of skee-ball at an iconic arcade emporium with locations all over the country?
From Slate ● May 1, 2024
Once upon a time, there was a magical emporium called The Body Shop.
From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2024
The prices at the emporium had gone up again, he observed.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
He is equally a curator, collector, exhibition designer, photographer, historian, archivist and scourer of auctions and antique emporia.
From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2018
Avila Retail has nearly two dozen specialty stores based in airports, including its Earth Spirit folk-art emporia and the awkwardly named Indigenous, which peddles Native American crafts at the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.
From Slate ● Sep. 7, 2017
Not every community welcomed these hot tub emporia with open bathrobes.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 9, 2015
After cruising the shops and antiques emporia of Bethnal Green, we queue at the bagel shop in Brick Lane and buy five dozen for the freezer.
From Newsweek ● Apr. 12, 2015
There were, however, no emporia or places either rich through the arts of peace, or formidable for the mechanism of war.
From The Coinages of the Channel Islands by B. Lowsley
Once a fringe fixture of comic-book stores and hobby emporiums, a trading-card game has become a powerhouse in the toy industry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
"People are hunting out bargains whether they're found in the sales aisles being well stocked by department stores, or in charity shops or other second-hand emporiums."
From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2023
Its multilane approaches are empty, its vast nearby shopping emporiums deserted.
From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 2023
Next they tried a block of brightly lit jewelry emporiums, but a guard shooed them away.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 23, 2022
Perry was well acquainted with the workings of such emporiums, having often patronized them, and happily, since usually he found it “so relaxing” to sit quietly and watch clothes get clean.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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