Ken Jennings

author, game show host

Record-breaking Jeopardy! champion turned host whose trivia mastery reflects an encyclopedic vocabulary and insatiable lexical curiosity.

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Words known to be used by Ken Jennings
  1. adj. 1 helping to learn; guiding in discovery or investigation; 2 using or obtained by exploration of possibilities rather than by following set rules

    A useful heuristic for understanding physics. (Attributed to Ken Jennings)
  2. adj. capable of being proved or disproved by observation or experiment

    Empirical evidence is the gold standard. (Attributed to Ken Jennings)
  3. n. a pattern; example; or model an overall concept accepted by most people in an intellectual community; as those in one of the natural sciences; because of its effectiveness in explaining a complex process; idea; or set of dataGram. an example of

    A new paradigm in astronomy. (Attributed to Ken Jennings)
  4. adj. concerned with theories or hypotheses rather than their practical applications

    Theoretical frameworks for the multiverse. (Attributed to Ken Jennings)

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