as in empirical
based on observation or experience
possesses the kind of experiential knowledge that is gained only from a long and eventful life
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Recent Examples of experiential
Sur la Table Cooking Class A cooking class at Sur La Table is the ultimate experiential gift to wow a foodie.
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Carina Brackett, Variety, 5 Dec. 2024
While some researchers are quick to focus on the starry-eyed consumer with impulsive shopping habits, other studies have found experiential purchases to have longer lasting rewards.
—Adam Mansuroglu, WWD, 5 Dec. 2024
One such instance happened with a psychedelic drug scene that was minimally described on the page, but Guadagnino turned it into an experiential sequence.
—Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
This is a unique pro bono opportunity that offers tax return preparation and experiential learning in communities far off the usual Alaska travel path.
—Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
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Carina Brackett, Variety, 5 Dec. 2024
While some researchers are quick to focus on the starry-eyed consumer with impulsive shopping habits, other studies have found experiential purchases to have longer lasting rewards.
—Adam Mansuroglu, WWD, 5 Dec. 2024
One such instance happened with a psychedelic drug scene that was minimally described on the page, but Guadagnino turned it into an experiential sequence.
—Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
This is a unique pro bono opportunity that offers tax return preparation and experiential learning in communities far off the usual Alaska travel path.
—Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for experiential
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The trio all hired the best-in-class consultants and advisers to handle the practical day-to-day grind, and usually persuaded the bosses that the empirical evidence offered a rational prescription.Philip Elliott, TIME, 11 Dec. 2024
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Although the nation’s intelligence agencies have been divided over COVID’s origins, no empirical evidence has ever been published to support the lab-leak theory.Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2024
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And, since a higher EQ is linked to all sorts of positive subjective and objective career benefits, including superior management and leadership skills, a positive appreciation of candidates’ impression management during the interview is in effect an accurate validation of their EQ.Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
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The Public Policy Institute of California, a think tank that conducts vigorous and objective research into vital state issues, is celebrating its 30th anniversary with a series of retrospective reports.Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 13 Dec. 2024
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Considered by the space agency as a 30-day technology demonstration of no more than five experimental test flights, the 4-pound chopper performed 72 flights for nearly three years at Mars.Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
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Her doctor, Jayme Locke, then an abdominal transplant surgeon at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, had previously led short-term pig kidney transplants in brain-dead recipients and suggested the experimental procedure as a last resort.Emily Mullin, WIRED, 17 Dec. 2024
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“Experiential.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/experiential. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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