extrapolate
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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
There’s another reason not to extrapolate recent decades’ huge success for U.S. equities.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 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
Then, after all your manipulations are complete, you take the limit: you extrapolate and figure out where the expression is headed.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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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
He extrapolates that it’s because Pullman is so far-flung, “just not hugely impacted by these things the way it would be in a city.”
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 2023
It extrapolates from current events to remind us of the ever-growing threats to liberty.
From Little Brother by Doctorow, Cory
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 software bears have extrapolated to a future in which much of office work is done by agents, not by people.
From Barron's ● Mar. 24, 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
And this can be extrapolated backward in time, so that when I speak, Desdemona speaks, too.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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I remember thinking that wealth is a great barrier to harm and then feeling silly for extrapolating my own experience once again.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2026
Labeled the “January Barometer” by famed academic Yale Hirsch, creator of the Stock Trader’s Almanac, the idea of extrapolating first- month returns over the calendar year has proven to be a winner.
From Barron's ● Jan. 27, 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
This principle of ever-more-exact measurement derives from Tycho Brahe; in tightening up the relationship between evidence and theory in physics, Galileo was extrapolating from the practices of the astronomers.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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