How to Use epistemic in a Sentence

epistemic

adjective
  • This is a form of epistemic harm.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • This creates an epistemic trap.
    — Bhushan Parikh, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026
  • These are empirical life preservers that pull us out of the epistemic whirlpool.
    — Leslie Jamison, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
  • This requires a kind of epistemic compassion.
    — Jonny Thomson, Big Think, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Some of us write about epistemic relativism, the view that truth can vary depending on the context.
    — Kathleen Higgins, Scientific American, 5 Dec. 2016
  • Other epistemic trespassers spent their time reinventing the wheel.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2020
  • That epistemic constraint defined the ceiling of what medicine could accomplish at scale.
    — Celina Yong, STAT, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Facebook’s epistemic crisis is perhaps the biggest story in tech and media from the last year.
    — Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, 10 May 2018
  • Manipulated media is far from harmless, but its harms have not been epistemic.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
  • There can be no epistemic authority, no one to trust, other than the autocrat and his mouthpieces.
    — David Roberts, Vox, 2 Nov. 2018
  • But for most of us and in our daily lives, epistemic trespassing is simply irritating.
    — Big Think, 28 Jan. 2026
  • These human sciences present a patchwork of conflicting claims to epistemic supremacy.
    — Jason Blakely, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
  • So Western epistemic traditions must be booted out of Africa.
    — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Eire’s book raises the question of a culture’s epistemic reality and whether that affects the kinds of events that can occur.
    — Christian Wiman, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
  • Eire’s book raises the question of a culture’s epistemic reality and whether that affects the kinds of events that can occur.
    — Christian Wiman, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Revkin focuses on details in climate science, not on grand epistemic theories.
    — William Saletan, Slate Magazine, 3 May 2017
  • The moral, social, and epistemic void in which Germans found themselves after defeat was filled, at least for a time, by the irrational.
    — Richard J. Evans, The New Republic, 1 Dec. 2021
  • How does a government begin to address an epistemic disconnect of this magnitude?
    — William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2021
  • The empathetic likeness is greater than the epistemic difference.
    — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Part of resisting epistemic exhaustion is learning to live with with the limited and imperfect.
    — Mark Satta, The Conversation, 18 Nov. 2020
  • For people who have staked their lives on doing whatever the experts tell them to do, the strange unity of confusion has induced an epistemic crisis.
    — Crispin Sartwell, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2022
  • The new conspiracism moves us from gap to chasm, for epistemic polarization ultimately dissolves our common sense of the world.
    — N.c., The Economist, 12 Aug. 2019
  • As Nguyen notes in this essay, two things are needed for cult thinking to bloom — epistemic bubbles combined with echo chambers — and social media has it in spades.
    — Lisa Bubert, Longreads, 9 Mar. 2022
  • Will either ever be as essential or influential as Twitter among epistemic elites?
    — Katherine Alejandra Cross, WIRED, 13 July 2023
  • Populists question elites’ epistemic culture, which requires deference to experts.
    — Jacob Hale Russell, TIME, 4 Mar. 2025
  • In epistemic bubbles, other voices are not heard; in echo chambers, other voices are actively undermined.
    — Lisa Bubert, Longreads, 9 Mar. 2022
  • In epistemic bubbles, other voices are not heard; in echo chambers, other voices are actively undermined.
    — Lisa Bubert, Longreads, 9 Mar. 2022
  • Epistemic humility, though, is distinct from epistemic nihilism.
    — Idrees Kahloon, The New Yorker, 16 May 2022
  • The argument for epistemic vigilance There are two strands to the argument for epistemic vigilance.
    — Big Think, 22 Mar. 2025
  • Of course, those are the very conditions that have enabled an epistemic corrosion that will continue to advance with or without synthetic media.
    — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 20 Dec. 2022

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