Synonyms for empirically
em·pir·i·cal·ly

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1. empirically, through empirical observation, by trial and erroradverb

   in an empirical manner

   "this can be empirically tested"

   Synonyms:
   through empirical observation, by trial and error

   Antonyms:
   theoretically

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How to use empirically in a sentence?

1. Pinar Karaca-Mandic:

   Ours is the first study to empirically examine the extent of delays in reporting.

2. Attorney Clark Brewster:

   I think that will shed the light most prominently on the issue here for us, the whole basis for listing betamethasone is because it’s injected into a joint and they want you not to inject the joints too close to the race, so the whole substantive basis is out the window if it’s a salve, and it can be proven scientifically and empirically to be the salve.

3. Italo Calvino:

   What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.

4. Albert Einstein:

   God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.

5. Joseph Brodsky:

   For aesthetics is the mother of ethics. Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. I believe-not empirically, alas, but only theoretically-that for someone who has read a lot of Dickens to shoot his like in the name of an idea is harder than for someone who has read no Dickens.