extrapolation
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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
The film climaxes with Moscow’s incineration, the Master’s fantasy of revenge — a scene that is not in the novel but Lockshin believes is a fair extrapolation of Bulgakov’s intentions.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2024
“I think it’s an extrapolation of giving consent for one’s children under eighteen, but it seems a little odd.”
From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth
Vocabulary lists containing extrapolation
Artemis Fowl
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