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Recent Examples of empiric
By removing emotion from wealth planning and investing, AI helps ensure that decisions are based on data and empirics rather than intuition.
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Logan Weaver, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
The irony is that citizenship helps drive integration — not the other way around
Like many immigration arguments, the case for ending birthright citizenship is a normative argument wrapped in incorrect empirics.
—Dara Lind, Vox, 23 July 2018
Economics is hard, but many of us who are not averse to giving due respect to professionals who have a real understanding of how the world works have shifted our assessment on the empirics of late.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 30 June 2010
Atheists are philosophers not scientists and science is not a philosophy or a religion but a method of empiric inquiry based on questioning, imagination and experimentation.
—Wired Letters Department, WIRED, 1 Dec. 2006
Logan Weaver, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
The irony is that citizenship helps drive integration — not the other way around
Like many immigration arguments, the case for ending birthright citizenship is a normative argument wrapped in incorrect empirics.
—Dara Lind, Vox, 23 July 2018
Economics is hard, but many of us who are not averse to giving due respect to professionals who have a real understanding of how the world works have shifted our assessment on the empirics of late.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 30 June 2010
Atheists are philosophers not scientists and science is not a philosophy or a religion but a method of empiric inquiry based on questioning, imagination and experimentation.
—Wired Letters Department, WIRED, 1 Dec. 2006
Recent Examples of Synonyms for empiric
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This clinching game was what many observers expected the series to be like between the defensive-minded teams, but each side watched leads of two-plus goals disappear in the first three games.—
Mark Anderson,
Los Angeles Times,
15 June 2026
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Political observers often float Ossoff as a potential 2028 candidate for president, but he's waved away speculation.—
Jay Stahl,
USA Today,
15 June 2026
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Rinehart is the empiricist of the group.—
Mayra Rodriguez Valladares,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2026
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And across them, the detective—once Modernism’s heroic empiricist—a figure of melancholy drift, a leftover from a world that still believed in beginnings and ends.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Dec. 2025
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Shahidian comments came after the British military's maritime monitor, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center reported that a fire had broken out on a tanker off Oman’s coast.—
Sarah Dean,
NBC news,
12 June 2026
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The group of men saw one of the victims was wearing an ankle monitor, so he was allowed to leave out of fear the police would find their location.—
Sofia Saric
June 11,
Miami Herald,
11 June 2026
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“Empiric.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/empiric. Accessed 15 Jun. 2026.
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