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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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While most observers would rather see stars like Messi play the entire match, ultimately the decision is no different from the Cowboys opting to let Dak Prescott or CeeDee Lamb play a series or two in Week 18 before resting them after locking up the division.
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Still, the pace and scale of the effort has stunned longtime sanctions observers.
Noun
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Rinehart is the empiricist of the group.
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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.
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In March, Jones was released from jail on total lockdown house arrest, meaning he is monitored around the clock by an ankle monitor.
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This 24-inch business monitor keeps everything on-screen professional.
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“Empiric.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/empiric. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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