extrapolate
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“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
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
You can’t just take an analysis of the past, no matter how careful it is, and assume you can extrapolate it into the future.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025
"This makes it problematic to extrapolate these past extinction patterns into the future, because the drivers are rapidly changing, particularly with respect to habitat loss and climate change."
From Science Daily • Oct. 27, 2025
Merely rational thought—forgive me for preaching, but I must, I must!—merely rational thought leaves the mind incurably crippled in a closed and ossified system, it can only extrapolate from the past.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
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