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Recent Examples of empiric
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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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
Economics is hard, but many of us who are not averse to giving due respect to professionals who have a real understanding of how the world works have shifted our assessment on the empirics of late.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 30 June 2010
Atheists are philosophers not scientists and science is not a philosophy or a religion but a method of empiric inquiry based on questioning, imagination and experimentation.
—Wired Letters Department, WIRED, 1 Dec. 2006
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
Economics is hard, but many of us who are not averse to giving due respect to professionals who have a real understanding of how the world works have shifted our assessment on the empirics of late.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 30 June 2010
Atheists are philosophers not scientists and science is not a philosophy or a religion but a method of empiric inquiry based on questioning, imagination and experimentation.
—Wired Letters Department, WIRED, 1 Dec. 2006
Recent Examples of Synonyms for empiric
Noun
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In the days after the training session, about 190 of the more than 400 people who attended had signed on to be observers, according to Luis Argueta, a spokesman for the grassroots organization Unidos MN and a speaker at the event.—
Ray Sanchez,
CNN Money,
8 Feb. 2026
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One possibility is an expansion of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization, or UNTSO, which maintains a small observer force in Lebanon.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
8 Feb. 2026
Noun
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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,
Literary Hub,
10 Dec. 2025
Noun
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After a particularly disastrous primary election in 2020, an independent monitor was hired to observe the general election that year as part of an agreement between the county and the State Election Board.—
Kate Brumback,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2026
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After a particularly disastrous primary election in 2020, an independent monitor was hired to observe the general election that year as part of an agreement between the county and the State Election Board.—
Kate Brumback,
Chicago Tribune,
10 Feb. 2026
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“Empiric.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/empiric. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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