extrapolation

Example Sentences

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“We’re doing a big extrapolation from watching videos of robots doing laundry to a butler in my house that can do everything,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025

But it’s an extrapolation of those ethics at the New York Times.

From Slate • Nov. 17, 2025

In 2016, he co-authored an analysis published in The BMJ asserting that medical error is the third leading cause of death in the United States—a claim critics have dismissed as a wild extrapolation.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 25, 2024

But that’s extrapolation – It says nothing about strict gender boundaries or the reality of transgender existence.

From Salon • Mar. 3, 2024

“Ernest loved technical extrapolation, and we had fun drawing such an accelerator.”

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik