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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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As these political divides deepen, observers doubt the election’s credibility.—
Nimi Princewill,
CNN Money,
31 May 2026
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Though the party assembly process isn’t typically representative of the people voting in the full primary election — in which Democrats as well as unaffiliated voters can participate — the event raised eyebrows among political observers.—
Elliott Wenzler,
Denver Post,
31 May 2026
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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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The 2026 model comes loaded with Subaru’s latest EyeSight driver-assist technologies, including automatic emergency steering, adaptive cruise control with lane centering, blind-spot warning, rear cross-traffic alert, reverse automatic braking and a surround-view monitor system.—
Tim Jackson,
Denver Post,
29 May 2026
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The Oakland Police Department may soon regain its self-determination thanks to the report issued last week by federal monitor Robert Warshaw.—
John Ramos,
CBS News,
28 May 2026
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“Empiric.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/empiric. Accessed 7 Jun. 2026.
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