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extrapolation

noun as in projection

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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.

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Simple extrapolations from the impacts of invasive alien species observed today are likely to underestimate the magnitude of future impacts.

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Yet the extrapolation some have made is startling; that slavery turned sprinters of West African descent into world beaters.

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Following the classical model, the AI compares information against learned examples, draws conclusions, and makes extrapolations.

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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.

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