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Recent Examples of epistemic
Eire’s book raises the question of a culture’s epistemic reality and whether that affects the kinds of events that can occur.
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Christian Wiman, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
Social media, disinformation and misinformation, echo chambers, epistemic bubbles and whatnot are often taken to be responsible.
—Clive Crook, Twin Cities, 13 Dec. 2025
The empathetic likeness is greater than the epistemic difference.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2025
The epistemic gulf—between what investigators say exists and what voters think must exist—is sustaining the scandal.
—Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Nov. 2025
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Christian Wiman, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
Social media, disinformation and misinformation, echo chambers, epistemic bubbles and whatnot are often taken to be responsible.
—Clive Crook, Twin Cities, 13 Dec. 2025
The empathetic likeness is greater than the epistemic difference.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2025
The epistemic gulf—between what investigators say exists and what voters think must exist—is sustaining the scandal.
—Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for epistemic
Adjective
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Millions of people have some form of dementia, a progressive loss of memory, reasoning, language skills and other cognitive functions.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
8 Mar. 2026
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People now are even still having cognitive issues and having all types of-- secondary effects years and years later.—
Scott Pelley,
CBS News,
8 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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The chatbot framed the plan as a psychological strike rather than a physical one.—
Jennifer Elias,
CNBC,
4 Mar. 2026
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Sosnovenko works with Voices of Children, a Ukrainian organization that provides psychological support and documents children's experiences in the country during the yearslong war with Russia.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
4 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Hasslers were also associated with multiple adverse mental and physical health outcomes like depression, anxiety and higher body mass index.—
Sara Moniuszko,
USA Today,
9 Mar. 2026
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The Van Gogh attribution, for instance, was subsequently matched by more conventional research, including technical analyses and studies of the artist’s letters (museum experts concluded that the portrait’s unusually dampened colors simply reflected Van Gogh’s troubled mental state at the time).—
Oscar Holland,
CNN Money,
9 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Ellis made efforts to bring Jack Wilshere back into the academy, wanting that Arsenal connection embedded into the coaching leadership and conscious of the need to reintroduce a winning culture to the academy.—
James McNicholas,
New York Times,
5 Mar. 2026
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Police said the man was alert, conscious, and breathing when officers arrived.—
Christopher Harris,
CBS News,
5 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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House Democrats are facing an internal split, with centrists who are circulating an alternative plan while remaining noncommittal or opposed to their leaders’ war powers measure.—
Nicholas Wu,
semafor.com,
5 Mar. 2026
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The Sun trines Jupiter, harmonizing the internal peace of your 12th house with the domestic comfort of your 4th house.—
Tarot.com,
Sun Sentinel,
5 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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The Paralympics feature athletes with eight kinds of physical disabilities (including limb deficiency and impaired muscle power) as well as vision and intellectual impairment.—
Rachel Treisman,
NPR,
6 Mar. 2026
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And there is no setting more emblematic of freedom—and its discontents—than the campus, where tenure is supposed to protect the intellectual liberty of faculty and students living independently for the first time try on new ideas and identities.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
5 Mar. 2026
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“Epistemic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/epistemic. Accessed 11 Mar. 2026.
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