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Discover LudwigThe phrase "an extrapolation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to an inference or conclusion drawn from existing data or trends.
Example: "Based on the current sales data, we can make an extrapolation about next quarter's performance."
Alternatives: "a projection" or "an estimation."
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Fig. 10 a An extrapolation error.
It's an extrapolation, really.
It is an extrapolation with consequences.
However, that connection was tenuous, an extrapolation from previous cases, officials said.
His thriller was not an invention; it was an extrapolation of recent history.
One former student, Peter Schwartz, told me that everything Sexton does is "an extrapolation of Charlie.
That estimate is an extrapolation of data obtained from 34 states, housing 73% of all prisoners.
"The story is an extrapolation of what Mary Shelley did" explains writer Kevin Grevioux, lest there be any doubt.
Given a set of variably disturbed samples, an extrapolation to zero disturbance was possible.
Conflict domain: essentially an extrapolation of the militarisation of cyberspace that we are already seeing – a world in which cyberwarfare becomes common.
Badiou's philosophy of the subject is an extrapolation of Sartre's existentialist slogan "Existence precedes essence" and incorporates a communist hypothesis that Althusser might have liked.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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