extrapolate

It’s tempting to extrapolate our successes or sacrifices and say, “I did it. Why can’t you?”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 26, 2026

Generative AI can synthesize and extrapolate in valuable ways, but it also can produce wrong answers or take on tasks that educators would see as inappropriate or counterproductive — such as writing papers for students.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 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

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

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

The metric, which tech startups commonly use to signal their growth trajectory, is sometimes criticized as imprecise or even misleading, since it typically extrapolates a single month's sales across a full year.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

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

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

From Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

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

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 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

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

From "Every Day" by David Levithan

That approach involves observing large numbers of galaxies and extrapolating the results to determine how much helium existed before later generations of stars altered their chemical composition.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

That’s as they worry “markets are extrapolating near-term trends — including profits fueled by the investment boom itself — too far into the future.”

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 23, 2026

Analysts calculate a $9.7 billion worst-case scenario, extrapolating the $20 million verdict to all 20,000 potential plaintiffs, based on historic average settlement rates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025

Where “I Think You Should Leave” operates like a jukebox, “The Chair Company” is a concept album extrapolating a single sight gag into a swirl of lunacy on par with an extended free jazz performance.

From Salon ● Oct. 13, 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