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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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Those two changes mean an observer could actually see three apparent images of the spacecraft at certain moments.

— Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 16 Sep. 2026
Market observers interviewed noted that current futures prices continue to significantly understate the actual supply risks in physical crude markets.

— , CNBC, 16 Sep. 2026

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In March, a woman in her 20s was allegedly murdered by her ex-partner, who was the subject of multiple restraining orders and was wearing an ankle monitor to track his location.

— Will Barker, TheWeek, 16 Sep. 2026
She was sent home with a blood glucose monitor and instructions to follow up pre-natal care, the lawsuit alleges.

— Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 16 Sep. 2026

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