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empirical

[em-pir-i-kuhl] / ɛmˈpɪr ɪ kəl /


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Empirical facts have the power to puncture partisan echo chambers and other closed-off belief systems.

From Salon • Feb. 14, 2026

"Empirical testing suggests that these football intelligence skills are transferable between clubs and leagues, but it is a risk for Liverpool to appoint a manager with such limited experience," Carteret said.

From BBC • Feb. 23, 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

As Adam Feldman has shown on Empirical SCOTUS, Kavanaugh and Roberts are nearly inseparable, voting together in 98 percent of cases, a record on this court.

From Slate • Jul. 19, 2023

Empirical knowledge of particulars must, therefore, precede in time the conceptual or scientific knowledge of universals.

From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various




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