epistemic

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Recent Examples of epistemic The few intrepid psychologists and social scientists who have attempted a systematic study of wisdom have noted that it’s often associated with qualities like empathy, holistic thinking, and epistemic humility. Meghan O’Gieblyn, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025 Smith’s intervention foregrounds the absence of Black women in both feminist and Black nationalist traditions and, in doing so, creates epistemic space for subsequent scholars to define Black feminist thought as a distinct intellectual tradition. The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 17 July 2025 To believe such a thing would suggest that the epistemic rot, reality decay, and culture of conspiracism are not by-products of a specific politician or political movement, but something deeper—something intrinsic to the platforms, culture, and systems that define our lives. Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 16 July 2025 Trump’s messianic appeal may seem like a twenty-first-century creation, a product of partisan rage, epistemic drift, and American-style evangelicalism. Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 17 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for epistemic
Recent Examples of Synonyms for epistemic
Adjective
  • The book portrays a terrorist’s violent behavior as evolving from a mix of personality, emotions, beliefs, social ecology, and cognitive development.
    John Scott Lewinski, The Washington Examiner, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Sensoril is a patented form of ashwagandha that’s been well-researched for its effects on cognitive health support.
    Brianna Peters, Vogue, 10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Moving out, even temporarily, bears a psychological cost.
    Amy Lawrence, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Down ⬇ Ronan Day-Lewis, Anemone Meanwhile, the heartwarming father-son creative partnership between dad Daniel Day-Lewis and son Ronan Day-Lewis on the psychological drama Anemone unfortunately added up to some pretty bad reviews.
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The belief is that working on his mental approach with new goalie coach Peter Aubry, combined with a couple of technical adjustments, will help Skinner become more consistent and at his best — which is very good — more often.
    Daniel Nugent-Bowman, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
  • What’s at stake here is whether states should endorse practices that every major medical and mental-health association has already disavowed as dangerous and ineffective.
    Timothy Schraeder Rodriguez, Time, 8 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • From distant bear sightings early in the hunt, activity had escalated to what appeared to be close-up and conscious bear participation in the daily deer harvest.
    Marguerite Reiss, Outdoor Life, 9 Oct. 2025
  • First responders freed the child, who was conscious and breathing, and he was transported to Rady Children’s Hospital.
    Kristina Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • As Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak reminds us, any meaningful engagement must contend with internal difference, historical specificity, and political complexity.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Sims said Kaiser offers competitive pay and excellent health benefits, and is already reducing internal costs to make its latest wage offer to the Alliance of Health Care Unions — of which UNAC/UCHP is a member.
    Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 11 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • For menswear, the brand cited photographer Peter Beard as inspiration, channeling an intellectual-meets-bohemian aesthetic.
    Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The combination of pure intellectual inquiries and engineering advancement has been shaping this interdisciplinary field since its creation.
    Zhixin Wang, The Conversation, 10 Oct. 2025

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“Epistemic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/epistemic. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.

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