extrapolate

It’s tempting to extrapolate our own successes or sacrifices and say, “I did it. Why can’t you?”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 26, 2026

The West Coast appellate judges said it was “inappropriate” to extrapolate intent from one element of the crime, such as making a contract, to another, like the agreed-upon death.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026

People extrapolate the good times too much in booms, and the bad times during busts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

"If you extrapolate back, then perhaps the first ones were soft-bodied creatures with entirely organic skeletons and no minerals at all," Xiao said.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 15, 2026

“I can extrapolate from that; it’s clearly still effective.”

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

The metric, which tech startups commonly use to signal their growth trajectory, is sometimes criticized as imprecise or even misleading, since it typically extrapolates a single month's sales across a full year.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

Ms. Snider’s libretto fictionalizes and extrapolates from the historical record.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 12, 2026

Instead, he extrapolates non-human data to people, using in vitro studies, or in vivo studies on non-human animals, to make prescriptive recommendations for lifestyle changes.

From Slate ● Mar. 27, 2024

The U-M system takes GPS data from a percentage of vehicles on the road and extrapolates traffic patterns.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 20, 2024

It extrapolates from current events to remind us of the ever-growing threats to liberty.

From Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

The authors of the study estimated that their circumscribed findings extrapolated countywide could represent up to $114 million in losses over a month of sustained enforcement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

The paradox arises only if we insist on describing horizons using a single, one-sided arrow of time extrapolated to infinity — an assumption quantum mechanics itself does not require.

From Science Daily ● May 22, 2026

The inspector general’s office based its findings on a review of a selective or “purposive” sampling of 40 nursing-home inspections and admits the findings can’t easily be extrapolated to all facilities.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 7, 2026

The findings were then extrapolated to produce annual estimates.

From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2026

His head is full of statistics, facts and figures extrapolated into thousands of different combinations and comparisons.

From "Every Day" by David Levithan

That approach involves observing large numbers of galaxies and extrapolating the results to determine how much helium existed before later generations of stars altered their chemical composition.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

Most of us probably didn’t picture them extrapolating a story “based on a true rumor” into a comedy proposing the famous Texans may be half-siblings.

From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026

I remember thinking that wealth is a great barrier to harm and then feeling silly for extrapolating my own experience once again.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2026

What’s important is understanding how human hands can grasp an object, and then extrapolating that to whatever synthetic appendage has been chosen, she added.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 27, 2025

But there are good reasons to be very careful in extrapolating from modern forager societies to ancient ones.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari