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Empirically

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Adverb
  1. 1
    Based on experience as opposed to theoretical knowledge.

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

  2. 2
    Based on data and evidence gathered in the real world.

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

Adverb
  1. 1
    in an empirical manner wordnet

Etymology

From empirical + -ly.

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