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How to use empirically in a sentence

13 example sentences · adverb

Empirically means based on experience as opposed to theoretical knowledge. Example: “I have no idea why this works, but empirically, it works.”

Examples of empirically by meaning

adverbBased on experience as opposed to theoretical knowledge.

  • I have no idea why this works, but empirically, it works.

adverbBased on data and evidence gathered in the real world.

  • We need to test this idea empirically instead of just speculating about it.

More sentences with empirically

  • It has been found empirically that eta expansion usually suffices for dealing with the value restriction.2007, Geoffrey Smith, Notes on SML97's Value Restriction. From the entry value restriction
  • And hence colour, which was initially an ad hoc concept, later turned out to be an empirically confirmed reality of hadrons.2017, Syed Afsar Abbas, Group Theory in Particle, Nuclear, and Hadron Physics, Taylor & Francis (CRC Press / Chapman & Hall), page 204. From the entry hadron
  • We derive our embarrassingly parallel VI algorithm, analyze our method theoretically, and demonstrate our method empirically on a few nonconjugate models.2015 October 14, Willie Neiswanger, Chong Wang, Eric Xing, “Embarrassingly Parallel Variational Inference in Nonconjugate Models”, in…. From the entry embarrassingly parallel
  • We derive our embarrassingly parallel VI algorithm, analyze our method theoretically, and demonstrate our method empirically on a few nonconjugate models..2015, Willie Neiswanger, Chong Wang, Eric Xing, “Embarrassingly Parallel Variational Inference in Nonconjugate Models”, in arXiv. From the entry nonconjugate
  • At the logically extrapolated but empirically unverifiable beginning of the cosmic process, only the field domain existed, in a primordial state.2008, Ervin László, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World, Rochester, V.T.: Inner…. From the entry prespace
  • The alleged correlation is not empirically grounded.1990, Peter A. French, Theodore Edward Uehling, Howard K. Wettstein, editors, The Philosophy of the Human Sciences (Midwest Studies in…. From the entry mentalese
  • In sum, the proposition of the Bertenthal and Campos hypothesis that locomotor experience brings on or greatly improves visual proprioception has been empirically supported.2013 July 23, David I. Anderson, Joseph J. Campos, David C. Witherington, Audun Dahl, Monica Rivera, Minxuan He, Ichiro Uchiyama, Marianne…. From the entry precrawling
  • Empirically, there are very few cases where Horowitzian electoral schemes have been tried, and hardly any where it has achieved the desired results.2003, Colin Elman, Miriam Fendius Elman, Progress in international relations theory, page 362. From the entry Horowitzian
  • We think it makes sense to generate interventions empirically by finding out how couples deal with conflict, rather than by armchairing interventions.1976, John Mordechai Gottman, A couple's guide to communication, page xxv. From the entry armchair
  • It has not been demonstrated either theoretically or empirically that time and chance can explain either the universe with its high complexity or man as man.2005, Martha McCallum, The Scarlet Thread. From the entry unproof
  • This notion is illustrated empirically by the desire among oil producing firms to unitize oil fields early to avoid the potentially large losses of common-pool extraction.2002, Eric Brousseau, Jean-Michel Glachant, The Economics of Contracts: Theories and Applications, page 146. From the entry unitize

Meaning of empirically

  1. adverb Based on experience as opposed to theoretical knowledge.
  2. adverb Based on data and evidence gathered in the real world.

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Questions about empirically in a sentence

How do you use empirically in a sentence?
Empirically is used as an adverb. For example: “I have no idea why this works, but empirically, it works.”
What is a short sentence with empirically?
“The alleged correlation is not empirically grounded.”
What does empirically mean?
Empirically means based on experience as opposed to theoretical knowledge.

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