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
  • The striking parallels between the two regimes have led many observers to turn their attention to Iran and question whether the ailing Khamenei could face a similar fate.
    Mostafa Salem, CNN Money, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Industry observers and company officials credited Sheetz with broadening the chain’s appeal beyond typical convenience store fare.
    Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 6 Jan. 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 30 Jan. 2026.

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