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Recent Examples of epistemic
Social media, disinformation and misinformation, echo chambers, epistemic bubbles and whatnot are often taken to be responsible.
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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
Her work anchors the list’s deeper philosophical undercurrent: that language, feeling, and kinship have all been sites of epistemic theft and creative refusal.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 17 July 2025
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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
Her work anchors the list’s deeper philosophical undercurrent: that language, feeling, and kinship have all been sites of epistemic theft and creative refusal.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 17 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for epistemic
Adjective
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Humans can only focus cognitive attention on one task at a time.—
Vanessa Countryman,
USA Today,
11 Jan. 2026
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Memory loss, cognitive decline, anxiety, sleep disruption, dementia and cardiovascular disease are all known risks of long-term alcohol use, as well as liver complications like fatty liver disease.—
Angelica Stabile,
FOXNews.com,
10 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) has 15 full-time psychological services providers to serve the mental health and mental performance needs of Team USA athletes.—
Michelle Bruton,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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The decision, widely expected by 97% of investors, arrived just as the S&P 500 crossed the psychological 7,000-point threshold for the first time in history.—
Eva Roytburg,
Fortune,
28 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Does the client have a specific mental disorder?—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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The feeling was unfamiliar, since my usual mental coordinates place me somewhere in the proximate future, a locus of anticipation and, all too often, unfocused worry.—
Michael Pollan,
The Atlantic,
26 Jan. 2026
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Banfield said his wife, still conscious at the time, directed him to apply pressure to her wounds to slow the bleeding.—
Lauren del Valle,
CNN Money,
30 Jan. 2026
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Amanda Askell, Anthropic’s in-house philosopher, is sounding pretty conflicted about whether AI models can be conscious and have feelings.—
Frank Landymore,
Futurism,
29 Jan. 2026
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Its eighth and latest buyout fund closed in 2021 and is logging a 12% internal rate of return (IRR), compared to about 15% for the S&P’s annual returns.—
Hank Tucker,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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One operation persisted fourteen hours, a sort of sci-fi marvel of science, internal engineering, and medical dedication, contra all the coeval dystopian breakdowns of that first COVID year.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
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Tangible cultural heritage consists of physical elements, like monuments, artifacts, and historic sites, while intangible cultural heritage consists of intellectual elements, like customs, traditions, and languages.—
Kristin Houser,
Big Think,
29 Jan. 2026
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In each place, searching for traces of Katharine Blodgett’s intellectual and personal footprint.—
Natalia Sánchez Loayza,
Scientific American,
29 Jan. 2026
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“Epistemic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/epistemic. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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