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- noun Plural form of
extrapolation .
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Examples
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Suggestions for expanding the House to over a thousand members tend to make linear extrapolations from the original apportionment or the point at which the size was fixed a century ago.
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Finally, the program that really blows up under conventional extrapolations is Medicare.
Comments on Science and Social Security, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Something to remember when offering cheap extrapolations is that the market for this type of research is not nearly as exclusive to academia as JAM would like to believe.
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Something to remember when offering cheap extrapolations is that the market for this type of research is not nearly as exclusive to academia as JAM would like to believe.
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First, the time scale over which desertification evaluations are conducted is often too short, and reliable long-term extrapolations cannot be obtained.
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It is human nature to make assumptions about the future based on extrapolations from the past.
American Casino 2005
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It is human nature to make assumptions about the future based on extrapolations from the past.
American Casino 2005
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After all, as a practising therapist, you’ll be all too aware that it’s the extrapolations from the theory that really count, rather than the theory itself.
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But Darling pointed out that Brown's Tory cuts figures did not Continued on page 2 Continued from page 1 represent the party's policy but were merely "extrapolations" based on figures produced by a think tank, the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
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They are not formal I.Q. tests, but Mr. Sailer says they are similar enough to make reasonable extrapolations.
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