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

"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

It’s been decades since this view enjoyed strong empirical support, if it ever did.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 28, 2026

But in matters of vital importance—meaning, in effect, war and police espionage— the empirical approach is still encouraged, or at least tolerated.

From "1984" by George Orwell