How to Use empirical in a Sentence

empirical

adjective

• They collected plenty of empirical data from their experiments.
• There is a blueprint for success, empirical data to guide us, and a light at the end of the tunnel.
  — Michael Dresser, baltimoresun.com, 14 Feb. 2018
• And the empirical basis for it is, in any case, doubtful.
  — The Economist, 28 Nov. 2020
• This element is much less empirical than the first two and refers to where and how the ski makes contact with snow.
  — Elijah Rawls, Men's Health, 16 Dec. 2022
• But most of the empirical evidence thus far points to the contrary.
  — David Zweig, Wired, 11 May 2020
• And every bit of empirical evidence points to the fact that there are no good cops.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 24 May 2018
• More empirical work is needed to say for certain if a species grieves and mourns.
  — Caitlyn Finton, Discover Magazine, 21 Jan. 2022
• The Catholic Church must align itself with empirical facts.
  — Brooke Stanton, National Review, 15 June 2021
• The point of the pilots isn’t just the empirical findings, but to make the policy tangible.
  — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 12 June 2023
• These are empirical life preservers that pull us out of the epistemic whirlpool.
  — Leslie Jamison, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
• But still, at least from an empirical perspective, the Ravens ought to have a slight boost by resting this week.
  — Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 12 Jan. 2024
• But that’s the least likely based on the latest empirical data.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 15 July 2021
• The whole thing about faith is to believe things for which there is no empirical evidence.
  — Bruce Bartlett, The New Republic, 23 Nov. 2020
• Some are strictly empirical, like the rate at which stars are born in the Milky Way and the fraction of those stars with habitable planets.
  — Dennis Overbye, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2022
• The question is, how long can one deny a growing empirical body of facts?
  — National Geographic, 5 Feb. 2017
• But the empirical record showed this to be at best an incomplete account.
  — Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2022
• In terms of the existing empirical research, the results are very mixed.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 30 Nov. 2021
• Milkman: White men tend to have the best social networks and be the best connected—that is an empirical fact.
  — B.r.j. O'Donnell, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2017
• And then, of course, there is the empirical evidence collected in the past twenty-three years.
  — Sue Halpern, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2023
• Other than higher profits, none of the rest of the scenario has much empirical backing.
  — Jared Bernstein, Houston Chronicle, 23 Feb. 2018
• As researchers call for more empirical data to identify the best care plan, advocates warn the world is on the verge of a crisis.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 16 Nov. 2023
• What happened in Maui, in plain empirical terms, is simple enough to describe.
  — Wilfred Reilly, National Review, 1 Sep. 2023
• Science has caught up with the empirical wisdom of country folk medicine.
  — Diane Kochilas, Contributor, CNBC, 13 Aug. 2024
• If this is an empirical claim, it’s contradicted by the facts.
  — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2021
• The research is the first empirical study of a wind farm effect on a lobster population.
  — Clarisa Diaz, Quartz, 1 July 2021
• While progress is being made and qubits are being added, the process is mostly a slow grind of refinement and empirical testing.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 16 Mar. 2018
• The assumption that the senior league was stronger, a grown man to the boy that was its junior, was plausible but could never be put to an empirical test.
  — Nicholas Frankovich, National Review, 5 Oct. 2017
• There were two reasons for that, one empirical and one structural.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 1 Aug. 2022
• There’s no empirical evidence to support the lab story.
  — Lisa Chase, Outside Online, 29 Nov. 2024
• The trio all hired the best-in-class consultants and advisers to handle the practical day-to-day grind, and usually persuaded the bosses that the empirical evidence offered a rational prescription.
  — Philip Elliott, TIME, 11 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Jan 2025