extrapolate
Example Sentences
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The entire series, written by the clever Ben Elton, extrapolated what little is known about the Bard into an ingenious series of perfectly plausible comic dilemmas, and an occasional unexpected dramatic one.
Each animal’s gait is extrapolated from this measurement: For example, a pace gait with a limb phase of 0% means both front and back legs on one side swing in sync.
From Science Magazine
The authors of the report, released Monday, acknowledge that it’s difficult to extrapolate too much from the exercise, but say it was designed to open up perspectives beyond the status quo.
From Washington Post
The book extrapolates that this restaurant may have been the Knickerbocker Hotel.
From Salon
Despite the promise of three- to six-month battery life, in my testing, it lost 20 percent charge every two days, extrapolating out to under two weeks on a full charge.
From The Verge
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