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empirical

[em-pir-i-kuhl] / ɛmˈpɪr ɪ kəl /


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The company’s acquisitions of BlueHalo and Empirical Systems Aerospace have added $282.3 million to revenue during the current first quarter, the company said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 29, 2026

Empirical research over the past few years has produced benchmark datasets that correlate model outputs with party positions before and during elections.

From Salon • Jan. 3, 2026

But solving the cube may also elicit happiness because it taps into other emotions, according to Dr Julia Christensen, a senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Germany.

From BBC • Dec. 25, 2024

The study was presented this week at the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing in Singapore and is available on the arXIV preprint server.

From Science Daily • Dec. 7, 2023

Empirical knowledge of this kind is shown in the construction of many articles for heating, cooking, &c., such as the copper soldering bolt, or the Norwegian cooking-stove.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various




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