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extrapolating

verb as in infer

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This is the old trick of finding one bad apple and extrapolating away to beat the band.

Unsurprisingly, much wider bands have more people in them than they would if you kept on extrapolating out in $5,000 increments.

It is better not to be too ambitious about extrapolating from that description to conclusions about what that means.

Already, some adult gay men are extrapolating fairly big things from the videos.

Now extrapolating the other way, were there no such rays, the people would become a pigmentless race.

Extrapolating Russian history, it would be reasonable to expect a backlash in the form of a counterrevolution.

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On this page you'll find 16 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to extrapolating, such as: deduce, hypothesize, guess, theorize, envision, and figure.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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