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Recent Examples of nonempirical
The enforcement of such nonempirical standards as taste and judgment implies a kind of cultural and aesthetic hierarchy that Silicon Valley’s ruling class embraces ruthlessly but will never admit to countenancing.
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Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 20 Oct. 2019
Each story represents a fresh challenge of how to say things in a nonempirical way.
—Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 24 June 2018
Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 20 Oct. 2019
Each story represents a fresh challenge of how to say things in a nonempirical way.
—Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 24 June 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonempirical
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The decision leaves open a theoretical possibility another prosecutor could take over the case, but the path forward remains precarious.Brett Samuels, The Hill, 19 Dec. 2024
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Both have theoretical appeal as a refuge from wider geopolitical and market volatility, though this has not always borne out for crypto prices.Jenni Reid, CNBC, 19 Dec. 2024
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Applied to China, the alleged IP thieves would have been spying on Blackberry and its market-leading phone, not the iPhone that few (including Blackberry) expected would succeed beyond niche status.John Tamny, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2025
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However, the alleged Bourbon Street attacker was not behind the wheel, meaning the vehicle changed hands at some point.Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 1 Jan. 2025
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While the exact rules of the Game of 20 generally remain unknown, researchers have previously proposed some hypothetical rules for one variant—the Ur game.Newsweek, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
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Another breed of hypothetical particle, axions are predicted to exist by quantum chromodynamics, which is our best quantum theory of the strong force that binds quarks together to form protons, neutrons and ultimately atomic nuclei.Keith Cooper, Space.com, 19 Dec. 2024
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It’s called ring attention because GPUs are organized into a conceptual ring, with each GPU passing data to its neighbor.Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 20 Dec. 2024
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Hillwood, a company connected to the Ross Perot family, presented conceptual plans to develop 10.35 million square feet of industrial style office, warehouse and light manufacturing space on about 1,380 acres near Linwood and Bluebird Roads just off Interstate 40 in eastern Wilson County.Andy Humbles, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
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The idea of self-reflective agents ventures into speculative territory.Douglas B. Laney, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
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Many speculative pockets of the stock market surged Thursday, the first session of the new year, right after the S&P 500 closed out the best two-year run since 1998.Yun Li, CNBC, 2 Jan. 2025
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Like many other tech companies in the twenty-first century, Spotify spent its first decade claiming to disrupt an archaic industry, scaling up as quickly as possible, and attracting venture capitalists to an unproven business model.Liz Pelly, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
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Herbert’s record-setting statistics have slowed this season as the Chargers (9-6) ushered in a new offense with unproven receivers.Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 27 Dec. 2024
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And the exploitation of the total resource, including unproved but technically recoverable resources, is fairly low, less than 2% per year.Michael Lynch, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
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During the 2020 wildfires in Oregon, for example, armed men hampered firefighting, fueled by unproved rumors that antifa had set the fires.Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Oct. 2024
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“Nonempirical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonempirical. Accessed 8 Jan. 2025.
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