heuristics
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
“No human heuristics were injected into it,” said Folkert Huizinga, a researcher who worked on Leela.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
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
But the evidence also shows that many voters use heuristics and other decision-making shortcuts to reason their way through complex questions of politics.
From Salon ● Dec. 7, 2022
Logic, rhetoric, heuristics, and dialectics interact inside this framework.
From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin
Random Word
Spin the wheel and learn a new word!
Get a wordDefinitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.