empiric

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Recent Examples of empiric 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 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 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
Noun
  • Some observers, trying to make sense of Trump’s behavior, have tried to put his policies firmly back in the box of great-power competition.
    Stacie E. Goddard, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
  • According to Vatican observers and bookmakers, the following candidates have the strongest odds.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • He was initially shown a yellow card by referee Peter Bankes, but after being sent to the monitor for an on-field review by the video assistant referee (VAR), the booking was upgraded to a straight red card for serious foul play, which would have carried with it a three-match ban.
    Nnamdi Onyeagwara, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Not wanting to disrupt the church function, Velasquez Cruz stepped outside to check on the monitor only to find immigration agents waiting for him, who promptly detained him.
    Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 29 Apr. 2025

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“Empiric.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/empiric. Accessed 3 May. 2025.

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