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extrapolation

[ik-strap-uh-ley-shuhn] / ɪkˌstræp əˈleɪ ʃən /


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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

“When you look into the Feast of Seven Fishes, it’s sort of an extrapolation of that.”

From Salon • Dec. 14, 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

Smothermon has argued that Glossip’s defenders made an incorrect extrapolation.

From Slate • Oct. 9, 2024

I wonder if its social extrapolation is a major reason for attempts at its suppression.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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