empirical evidence

Frequency: 9.055.8 per million words

information received by means of the senses, particularly by observation and experimentation

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Examples (10)

  • The scientist presented strong empirical evidence to support his theory.
  • Without any empirical evidence, the claim is merely speculation.
  • In court, the lawyer relied on empirical evidence from the crime scene.
  • Good academic research must be based on solid empirical evidence.
  • By the end of the study, they had gathered substantial empirical evidence.
  • The policy decision was made following a review of all available empirical evidence.
  • While the theory is popular, the empirical evidence remains weak.
  • Is there any empirical evidence to suggest this new method is more effective?
  • The team is currently collecting empirical evidence through a series of experiments.
  • The debate was finally settled by overwhelming empirical evidence.