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noun- One who infers from a trend within an already observed interval.

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  • So Baudrillard offered himself as an extrapolator, a canary in the cultural coalmine.
  • "If this were the final, would the opposition now have a free hand to kill John Terry?" wonders top logic extrapolator Gary Naylor.
  • Since he was an excellent extrapolator, he had taken the precaution to instruct Prof. Haggard as well as Dr. Jamison and to hold them on standby alert.
  • Science fiction can be many things: prognosticator, extrapolator, warning ... but its primary job is to entertain.
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