empiricist

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Recent Examples of empiricist And across them, the detective—once Modernism’s heroic empiricist—a figure of melancholy drift, a leftover from a world that still believed in beginnings and ends. Literary Hub, 10 Dec. 2025
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Noun
  • Yet for many observers, given Israel’s accelerating defiance of international norms and the world’s growing willingness to say so, the threshold may already have been crossed.
    Ken Barnes, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Many observers initially viewed Collier and Stewart’s endeavor as a direct competitor to the WNBA, but Collier isn’t looking to build a rival league as much as a healthier overall ecosystem for her sport.
    J.J. Bailey, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2026
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 10 Mar. 2026.

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