empirical

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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

But 34 years later, Sims and Sargent would share in the 2011 economics Nobel for “for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

"Once the question shifts from where intelligence is to how the system is organized," Wilcox noted, "the empirical targets change."

From Science Daily • Mar. 3, 2026

It is less a sudden ideological turn and more a downstream effect of years of empirical work.

From Barron's • Feb. 2, 2026

Like that of the Babylonians, the Pythagorean universe seems more a construction based on mysticism and aesthetics than the result of empirical study.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro