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empirical

[em-pir-i-kuhl] / ɛmˈpɪr ɪ kəl /


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“And in a market like Manhattan or the Hamptons, that simply isn’t supported by empirical data.”

From MarketWatch • Jun. 3, 2026

"After 160 years of getting it wrong, this paper corrects this very important feature based not on guesswork, but on empirical evidence."

From Science Daily • Apr. 24, 2026

But they also helped modernize medicine by emphasizing the need for empirical evidence in preventing and treating diseases, and by encouraging healthy lifestyles.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

So the Newsom and Cox campaigns opened a private back-channel, trading gossip, swapping insights on the race and even sharing some empirical data.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2026

This aspiration towards demonstration was not confined to what we would think of as the empirical sciences but was also commonplace in theology.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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