empirical
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Kung said local community organizers are “looking at the empirical evidence” and seeing a ban as a win.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026
The idea that “there will be no victor or vanquished” is not poetic fatalism, it is empirical reality.
From Salon • Mar. 25, 2026
They then have an empirical, evidence-based allocation appropriate to their lifestyle, personality and investment approach.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 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
Gassendi and Locke never thought of themselves as founding an empirical philosophy, although we would say that is what they were doing.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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