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extrapolate

[ik-strap-uh-leyt] / ɪkˈstræp əˌleɪt /


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There’s another reason not to extrapolate recent decades’ huge success for U.S. equities.

From MarketWatch Jul. 1, 2026

“Nithya, she’ll probably go up because there’s going to be a fair amount of Democratic votes and she’ll get her chunk, but will she catch Pratt? You can extrapolate it either way,” Murphy said.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 5, 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

Mr Justice Nicklin started to ask what the best single piece of evidence for each article was, and Sherborne was forced to say: "We are asking your lordship to extrapolate."

From BBC Mar. 31, 2026

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

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

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

The book extrapolates that this restaurant may have been the Knickerbocker Hotel.

From Salon Feb. 5, 2022

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

From Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

The figures are based on a representative sample of 550 forecourts, comparing the five months prior to the outbreak with the five months after it started, and extrapolated to the UK's 8,359 forecourts.

From BBC Aug. 3, 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 entire series, written by the clever Ben Elton, extrapolated what little is known about the Bard into an ingenious series of perfectly plausible comic dilemmas, and an occasional unexpected dramatic one.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 27, 2025

And this can be extrapolated backward in time, so that when I speak, Desdemona speaks, too.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

“The market is likely extrapolating the swift, thus far, recovery of Mideast supply and already pricing expected future surpluses,” analysts at Goldman Sachs said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 25, 2026

No matter the reading, investors should be careful about extrapolating March’s trend into the coming months.

From Barron's Apr. 12, 2026

Lastly, Hsueh estimates that mined gold for full-year 2025, extrapolating from the first nine months of the year, will reach 3,693 tonnes which is a very modest response to the higher prices.

From MarketWatch Nov. 26, 2025

But extrapolating from executives' remarks during cuts is "possibly the worst way" to determine the effects of AI on jobs, said Martha Gimbel, executive director of the Budget Lab at Yale University.

From BBC Oct. 28, 2025

Altogether it is thought–though it is really only a guess, based on extrapolating from cratering rates on the Moon–that some two thousand asteroids big enough to imperil civilized existence regularly cross our orbit.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson




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