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Recent Examples of empiricist
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
Literary Hub, 10 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for empiricist
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The other day, an observer decided to follow one of these parcels, chosen at random—a featherweight, toaster-size box from Sephora, addressed to 235 West Forty-eighth Street—and chart its journey.—
Henry Alford,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2026
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Their entry into the conflict represents an escalation that could further destabilize the region and global markets, observers note.—
Phillip M. Bailey,
USA Today,
29 Mar. 2026
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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.—
Logan Weaver,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2025
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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.—
Dara Lind,
Vox,
23 July 2018
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“Empiricist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/empiricist. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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