extrapolation

Example Sentences

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By extrapolation, he might even be capable of looking his wife and son in the eye and pulling the trigger.

From Washington Post

In fact, she said, the summer of 2021 was even hotter than mere extrapolation would suggest, leading some to question whether that warming is accelerating.

From Los Angeles Times

Stretching such extrapolations beyond Earth—as in the now infamous case of putative microfossils in a Martian meteorite—is a shaky prospect indeed.

From Scientific American

Counting fish is not easy, obviously, and extrapolations are made based on the size of large breeding females known as cows.

From Washington Post

This two-pronged approach of grounding scientists’ extraterrestrial extrapolations with studies of Earthly analogues could help clarify the bedrock limits for life on rocky planets, greatly aiding the development and execution of future extraterrestrial missions.

From Scientific American