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
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
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
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