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Recent Examples of nonempirical
The enforcement of such nonempirical standards as taste and judgment implies a kind of cultural and aesthetic hierarchy that Silicon Valley’s ruling class embraces ruthlessly but will never admit to countenancing.
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Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 20 Oct. 2019
Each story represents a fresh challenge of how to say things in a nonempirical way.
—Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 24 June 2018
Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 20 Oct. 2019
Each story represents a fresh challenge of how to say things in a nonempirical way.
—Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 24 June 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonempirical
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The theoretical matchups fans anticipated during the offseason are finally starting to play out on the court, adding a new wrinkle to the traditional rivalries of league play.Sabreena Merchant, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
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Each year, the Robot – a naïve stock-picking paradigm, generates a theoretical portfolio of ten very unpopular stocks.John Dorfman, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
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Part of that guessing comes from a gap in our knowledge; Mangione went off the grid in the months leading up to the alleged murder.Max Chapnick, The Conversation, 16 Jan. 2025
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The alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, was arrested in Pakistan in 2003, while Osama bin Laden, whose Al Qaeda terrorist group planned the attacks, was killed there by U.S. forces in 2011.Dean Pan, NBC News, 16 Jan. 2025
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In a hypothetical exercise, writers at The Athletic covering teams that could be interested in Hill came up with four potential trade offers, and national NFL writer Mike Jones provided an answer from the Dolphins.The Athletic NFL Staff, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025
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These harms are inextricable from the idea of superintelligence, because experts do not currently know how to align these hypothetical systems with human values.Tharin Pillay, TIME, 8 Jan. 2025
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Disability Studies: Foundations & Key Concepts This non-exhaustive reading list highlights some of the key debates and conceptual shifts in disability studies.JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 8 Jan. 2025
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The intentionally empty area around Sgr A*'s frame seemed to actually punctuate its conceptual and visual weight in a way its typical online backdrop of search bars and Google Chrome tabs never has for me.Monisha Ravisetti, Space.com, 4 Jan. 2025
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The two sides will stop fighting for 42 days, with the aim (again, speculative) of making that cease-fire permanent and ending the war.Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 16 Jan. 2025
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Yes, but: Those plans are dependent on Cleveland-Cliffs acquisition of U.S. Steel and are still only speculative.Sam Allard, Axios, 15 Jan. 2025
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Many desperate families come forward with unproven remedies, and we were grouped in with them—just another set of parents believing in a miracle cure.Chase Malackowski, Newsweek, 14 Jan. 2025
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Stock plummeted ~50% after NVIDIA’s CEO stressed quantum’s 20-year horizon, illustrating risk in overpaying for unproven near-term earnings.GuruFocus, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
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And the exploitation of the total resource, including unproved but technically recoverable resources, is fairly low, less than 2% per year.Michael Lynch, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
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During the 2020 wildfires in Oregon, for example, armed men hampered firefighting, fueled by unproved rumors that antifa had set the fires.Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Oct. 2024
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“Nonempirical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonempirical. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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