Sample Sentences forempirical (editor-reviewed)
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Is her theory supported by empirical data?empirical = based on experience or observation rather than theory
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Empirical studies provide inputs for our formulas, but the formulas themselves are largely based upon intuitive values.empirical = based on experience or observation
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The empirical method of thought, on which all the scientific achievements of the past were founded, is opposed to the most fundamental principles of Ingsoc. (source)
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The little bird, the little fish, the little animal learn not by principle, but empirically. (source)empirically = form experience
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...it meant the rigorous verification of hypotheses by means of repeated empirical observation, (source)empirical = based on experience or observation rather than theory
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For as long as she could remember, they'd passed her yard, acquaintances of the truck, exchangers of the empirical, the factual, the mathematical—traders in unknowable quantities. (source)empirical = information known through experience as contrasted to information based on theory
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Any movement needs to be flexible; it should be relentlessly empirical and open to different strategies in different places. (source)empirical = based on experience or observation rather than theory
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It should be noted that poltergeists are astral beings of questionable reality, while telekinesis is thought to be an empiric function of the mind, possibly electrochemical in nature...When they had finished making love, as she slowly put her clothes in order in the back seat of Tommy Ross's 1963 Ford, Sue Snell found her thoughts turning back to Carrie White.† (source)
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Of course, all that was empirically true.† (source)
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We thank you, maiden: But may not be so credulous of cure,—When our most learned doctors leave us, and The congregated college have concluded That labouring art can never ransom nature From her inaidable estate,—I say we must not So stain our judgment, or corrupt our hope, To prostitute our past-cure malady To empirics; or to dissever so Our great self and our credit, to esteem A senseless help, when help past sense we deem.† (source)
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The answer of seven years from now I reached by assuming the present situation, no change in Authority policy, and all major variables extrapolated from the empiricals implicit in their past behavior—a conservative answer of highest probability from available data.† (source)
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And that had made Wu's DNA work purely empirical.† (source)
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I've got the empiric processing formula ready for the Computer, and the sample we mocked up.† (source)
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After ten years of practicing medicine, she no longer considered herself beautiful, but she knew empirically that men found her attractive.† (source)
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Maybe they'll investigate some important empirical problem that has been troubling him for years.† (source)
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Farmer proposed an "empiric" regimen—a regimen based on his best guesses—which consisted of high-dose ethambutol and four second-line drugs, including a fluoroquinolone.† (source)
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