empiricist

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Noun
  • Many observers and analysts believe SpaceX has a goal of deploying about 30,000 Starlink satellites into orbit within the next five years – though the company still requires regulatory approval from the Federal Communications Commission to do so.
    Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 28 Oct. 2025
  • The discovery of the solar cycle now moved Carrington to undertake a rigorous study of sunspots that soon earned him a reputation as Britain’s premier solar observer.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
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“Empiricist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/empiricist. Accessed 3 Nov. 2025.

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