empirical

In a sentence

Six example sentences with empirical, each labelled with its topic.

• Before the trial existed, surgeons had only empirical grounds for the technique: it had worked on forty patients.

  Medicine

• The claim sounded elegant, but nobody had gathered empirical evidence from actual classrooms before the textbook printed it.

  Psychology

• Bakers worked from empirical rules for centuries, adjusting water by feel long before anyone measured dough hydration.

  Cooking

• Hume insisted that knowledge of cause and effect is empirical, learned from repeated observation and never from reason alone.

  Philosophy

• The theory predicted higher prices, but the empirical data from forty cities showed rents falling instead.

  Economics

• The coach's belief in the midrange shot had no empirical support, since his own charts showed it scoring least.

  Basketball

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More Academic words

• altered
• perspective
• criterion
• summarise
• pursued
• advocacy
• cite
• derived
• confer
• differentiated
• presumption
• accommodating