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empiric

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as in observer

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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 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

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Through a meditative duet between the performer’s cognition and their autonomic nervous system, activities that were largely imperceptible to an outside observer became known to the performer.

— Sophie Landres, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
Both developments create concerns among some observers that the companies are overseeing inflated volumes or, at worst, are experiencing wash trading, in which traders collude to buy and sell an asset to create a false sense of economic activity.

— Davis Giangiulio,Ananya Chetia, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2026

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Somewhere in that data is the next John, along with the ice, monitor, and tub that should be ready to receive him.

— Vibhu Krishna, STAT, 2 Oct. 2026
After the charges were dropped, the couple was finally able to retrieve Nick’s phone and have his ankle monitor cut off.

— Kate Payne, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2026

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