empiric

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Although baseball has been collecting data since the late 1800s, the empiric statistical analysis that is part of our game today dates back to 1977 with the introduction of sabermetrics.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 22, 2025

Cinema is an emotional medium and the issue of police brutality at bottom an empiric problem — can an approach that embraces the former address the latter?

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 27, 2017

But sometimes, these recommendations are based on no empiric evidence at all.

From Slate • Feb. 21, 2017

As Man of the Year Stalin, too, has certain grave disqualifications, one moral, the other empiric.

From Time Magazine Archive

The purely empiric knowledge of statics it implies could only have been accumulated by a long series of more or less happy experiments.

From A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 by Armstrong, Walter, Sir