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

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

From Salon • Mar. 3, 2024

With Richardson’s curve and the simplest extrapolation for the future growth of the human population, the two curves do not intersect until the thirtieth century or so, and Doomsday is deferred.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan