empiric

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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. 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
Noun
  • To outside observers, China’s economy still looks unstoppable.
    Lavender Au, The Dial, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The indictment — and the machinations that led to it — are the latest, and arguably most concerning, example of what many legal observers point to as the politicization and weaponization of the department under Bondi.
    Elena Moore, NPR, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • As Korbin stepped off the bus, Dyson – who has 14 years of experience as a bus driver and nine years as a school monitor – excitedly handed Korbin a red goodie bag.
    Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Jennifer Powers was released on an $850,000 bond and has been ordered to remain on house arrest while wearing an ankle monitor, according to court documents.
    Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 5 Oct. 2025

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“Empiric.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/empiric. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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