empirical
Example Sentences
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"There are plenty of theories, but until now there has been very little empirical work carried out on the basic, measurable characteristics of the signs," Bentz explains.
From Science Daily
“Our culture formed and bound by empirical science, will never credit such an explanation. But what if there is some important sense in which it is true?”
From Los Angeles Times
Importantly, the method does not rely on empirical fitting parameters.
From Science Daily
It is less a sudden ideological turn and more a downstream effect of years of empirical work.
From Barron's
Yet for all its reach, we still lack an empirical answer to a basic question: How has hip hop affected the lives of those most exposed to it?
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
