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  • noun metrology Symbol for the exameter (exametre), an SI unit of length equal to 1018 meters (metres).
  • proper noun A diminutive of the female given names Emily and Emma.

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Examples

  • Get 'Em (Ready to Vote) While They're Young yahooBuzzArticleHeadline =' Get \'Em (Ready to Vote) While They\'re Young '; yahooBuzzArticleSummary =' Article: A movement is growing within the states to swing the doors of our democracy wide open, encouraging and facilitating the active participation of young people in the electoral process. '

    Get 'Em (Ready to Vote) While They're Young 2009

  • Promoted to Headline (H3) on 10/28/09: Give 'Em Hell Harry, Starting with Lieberman yahooBuzzArticleHeadline =' Give \'Em Hell Harry, Starting with Lieberman '; yahooBuzzArticleSummary =' Article: Time to make the lives of opponents of health care reform living hell.

    Give 'Em Hell Harry, Starting with Lieberman 2009

  • Standing 'Em Up In Iraq Just To Knock' Em Down yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Standing \'Em Up In Iraq Just To Knock \'Em Down'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: - Bush expects the Shia-dominated police and military forces to turn against their own and destroy their heart and soul to accomplish the only possible solution to his necrotic Iraq strategy.

    Standing 'Em Up In Iraq Just To Knock 'Em Down 2007

  • Leave 'Em Wanting Moore yahooBuzzArticleHeadline =' Leave \'Em Wanting Moore '; yahooBuzzArticleSummary =' Article: It takes a rumpled but wide-awake media outsider to teach a lesson that the well-coifed, best-dressed media insiders chose to sleep through. '

    Leave 'Em Wanting Moore 2007

  • Bring 'Em Home yahooBuzzArticleHeadline =' Bring \'Em Home '; yahooBuzzArticleSummary =' Article: This war that our leaders have concocted has sapped our military strength, our credibility, our economy, our disaster preparedness, our morale, and our moral standing in the world.

    Bring 'Em Home 2007

  • Give 'Em All Guns and Hope For the Best yahooBuzzArticleHeadline =' Give \'Em All Guns and Hope For the Best '; yahooBuzzArticleSummary =' Article: We\'re packing arms and weapons into Pakistan to shore up General Musharraf as he trembles on the edge of defeat in his own country.

    Give 'Em All Guns and Hope For the Best 2007

  • Oh, Bomb 'Em, Obama yahooBuzzArticleHeadline =' Oh, Bomb \'Em, Obama '; yahooBuzzArticleSummary =' Article: President Barak Obama, in possession of "actionable intelligence," would order our armed forces to drop bombs on Pakistan.

    Oh, Bomb 'Em, Obama 2007

  • "Texas Poled 'Em" yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = '"Texas Poled \'Em"'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: There\'s only one way to play the game with George W. Bush and Alberto Gonzales and friends.

    "Texas Poled 'Em" 2007

  • Give 'Em Hell, Harry - And Get Answers to These Specific Questions yahooBuzzArticleHeadline =' Give \'Em Hell, Harry - And Get Answers to These Specific Questions '; yahooBuzzArticleSummary =' Article: Give-\'Em-Hell Harry Reid today did a great service to America today by standing up, shutting down the Senate and demanding answers about how and why the Bush administration lied to America about the Iraq "threat" in the lead up to the war.

    Give 'Em Hell, Harry - And Get Answers to These Specific Questions 2005

  • "Shallow Throat": Ratchet It Up, Take 'Em Down yahooBuzzArticleHeadline ='"Shallow Throat": Ratchet It Up, Take \'Em Down '; yahooBuzzArticleSummary =' Article: The GOP mole "Shallow Throat" says the "objective conditions" exist for liberals, progressives, and traditional conservatives to take down this corrupt, incompetent, power-mad crew. '

    "Shallow Throat": Ratchet It Up, Take 'Em Down 2005

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