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Recent Examples of empiricist
Rinehart is the empiricist of the group.
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Mayra Rodriguez Valladares,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2026
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.
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Literary Hub,
10 Dec. 2025
Mayra Rodriguez Valladares,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2026
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for empiricist
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The presence of observers from regional organizations such as the African Union and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development, who were confined mostly to Addis Ababa, helped provide the election with international legitimacy.
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Electoral authorities and international observers have repeatedly defended the integrity of the process.
Noun
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By removing emotion from wealth planning and investing, AI helps ensure that decisions are based on data and empirics rather than intuition.
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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.
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“Empiricist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/empiricist. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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