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extrapolate

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


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I’ve done that for over 14 years at that point when I started doing crowd work stuff, where it’s just a fun way to extrapolate on an idea.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 7, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 22, 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

“Even when we extrapolate the best-case scenario for chip production from our suppliers, it’s still not enough,” Musk said at the Nov. 6 annual meeting.

From MarketWatch Nov. 19, 2025

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

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

From each real-life situation, Mr. Coyle extrapolates concepts that are compelling, if a little gauzy.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 4, 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 Doctorow, Cory

But the stock market has “taken this demand and extrapolated it into the future,” with chip and memory stocks adding $7.8 trillion in market cap this year.

From MarketWatch Jun. 1, 2026

The findings were then extrapolated to produce annual estimates.

From BBC Feb. 19, 2026

"In addition, when comparing our constraints with those derived and extrapolated from the early universe's CMB, we also agree well," said Chang.

From Science Daily Dec. 21, 2025

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

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

From "Every Day" by David Levithan

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

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

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 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

I was no longer extrapolating; I was looping it through the core, freely talking about my life, suddenly breaching the confidences of my father and my mother and my wife.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee




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