epistemic

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Recent Examples of epistemic Populists question elites’ epistemic culture, which requires deference to experts. Jacob Hale Russell, TIME, 4 Mar. 2025 Brigette Lundy-Paine plays — in my interpretation, at least — a trans person haunted by their own self-awareness when so many people are still stuck in epistemic closets, capturing all the nuance of that pain. Samantha Allen, Them, 14 Jan. 2025 These are empirical life preservers that pull us out of the epistemic whirlpool. Leslie Jamison, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024 Manipulated media is far from harmless, but its harms have not been epistemic. Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023 See All Example Sentences for epistemic
Recent Examples of Synonyms for epistemic
Adjective
  • Some suggest this could negatively affect the immune system or be related to cognitive impairment in older adults.
    Jennifer Lefton, MS, RD/N, CNSC, FAND, Verywell Health, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Such interventions have been shown in past research to improve memory and thinking skills by five points on a cognitive test for people with mild cognitive impairment.
    Sandee LaMotte, CNN Money, 7 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The debt snowball method is meant to create quick wins that translate into psychological boosts by paying off your smallest debts first.
    Gabriel Rodríguez, Sacbee.com, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Starmer's seeming ridiculous announcement will do nothing but slap a symbolic bandage on a far deeper generational psychological wound.
    Jeffrey Blehar, National Review, 28 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • This definition also includes instance in which the victim is incapable of giving consent because of temporary or permanent mental or physical incapacity (include due to the influence of drugs or alcohol) or because of age.
    Baltimore Sun staff, Baltimore Sun, 11 Apr. 2025
  • The job of working in a prison comes with serious mental and physical health risks.
    William Melhado, Sacbee.com, 10 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • First responders arrived at the scene around 10:03 a.m. to find Joseph conscious and alert, the sheriff's office said.
    Doc Louallen, ABC News, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Diplomatic and socially conscious, Mitchell chooses to keep the peace in his relationships, especially seeing both sides of an argument, just like Libra.
    Valerie Mesa, People.com, 8 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Major negative factors include Iran’s greater nuclear weapon capabilities, its shorter time frames to build nuclear weapons, and the growing normalization of internal Iranian discussions favoring building nuclear weapons.
    Benjamin Weinthal, FOXNews.com, 10 Apr. 2025
  • The countermeasures will come into effect on April 15, following the completion of the Commission's internal procedures.
    Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Iran has cultivated an astonishing intellectual and artistic depth with far fewer resources than many other nations.
    Rebecca Ruth Gould, JSTOR Daily, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Framed as a biography of Jensen Huang, the only CEO Nvidia has ever had, the book is also something more interesting and revealing: a window onto the intellectual, cultural, and economic ecosystem that has led to the emergence of superpowerful AI.
    James Surowiecki, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2025

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“Epistemic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/epistemic. Accessed 18 Apr. 2025.

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