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extrapolate

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


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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

"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

“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

The names scratched into the posts no longer match the occupants, but I can extrapolate who’s who.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

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

Voit’s total of 22 was the fewest for a major league leader since 1918 at the end of the dead ball era but extrapolates to 59 over a full season.

From Seattle Times Sep. 27, 2020

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

From Little Brother by Doctorow, Cory

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

By leveraging AI, economists will be able to replicate the complex economic system at a granular level rather than relying on population or cohort averages, or data extrapolated from smaller samples.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 2, 2026

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 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

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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