empiric
Example Sentences
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Although baseball has been collecting data since the late 1800s, the empiric statistical analysis that is part of our game today dates back to 1977 with the introduction of sabermetrics.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2025
Cinema is an emotional medium and the issue of police brutality at bottom an empiric problem — can an approach that embraces the former address the latter?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2017
But sometimes, these recommendations are based on no empiric evidence at all.
From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2017
President Roosevelt made him secretary of War in 1904�an amiable Mars indeed who made empiric yet cherubic sidetrips to Cuba, Panama and Porto Rico.
From Time Magazine Archive
I was resuscitated by the empiric with cold, and recovered by the theorist with heat.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 by Various
