heuristics
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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At the very least, these models are useful heuristics amid extreme uncertainty—and right now, we need all the good heuristics we can get.
From Barron's • Mar. 2, 2026
To use the editor, one uploads a dataset to Umwelt, which employs heuristics to automatically creates default representations in each modality.
From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2024
As a novice, your mental heuristics are frequently faulty, so you are susceptible to prejudice, implicit bias, and error.
From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022
When faced with a hard problem, we use mental shortcuts called heuristics to help us make decisions without fully understanding everything about the problem we’re facing.
From Scientific American • Jun. 3, 2022
Since the coordinating mechanism consists of logic, rhetoric, heuristics, and dialectics, the new scale prompts the emergence of new rhetorical devices, among other things.
From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai
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