empiric

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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

Mr. Lincoln, honest man of nature, perhaps an empiric, doctoring with innocent juices from herbs; but some others around him seem to be quacks of the first order.

From Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 by De Gurowski, Adam G., count