empiricist

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Noun
  • Another key question observers inside and outside China increasingly are asking – will Xi take a fourth term as leader of the party, the military and the state, thus further busting norms?
    Deirdre Kirsten Tatlow, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The upside to this dilemma is that despite the tighter supply, the Farm Bureau economists and other industry observers do not expect a major turkey shortage for this holiday season.
    Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 21 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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