extrapolate
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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
These raw statistics are not the only reason to resist the temptation to extrapolate recent EPS growth rates into the future, however.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 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
“I can extrapolate from that; it’s clearly still effective.”
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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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
Typically, a poll surveys hundreds of or a few thousand people and then extrapolates their answers to represent the broader population.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 12, 2020
It extrapolates from current events to remind us of the ever-growing threats to liberty.
From Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
Influencers’ claims about the peptides’ effect on human weight loss, muscle mass, longevity and energy appear to be extrapolated from their effects on lab animals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
The figures are based on a representative sample of 550 forecourts, comparing the five months prior to the outbreak with the five months after it started, and extrapolated to the UK's 8,359 forecourts.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 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
"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
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“The market is likely extrapolating the swift, thus far, recovery of Mideast supply and already pricing expected future surpluses,” analysts at Goldman Sachs said.
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
Laypersons might be gulled into extrapolating from clothes-folding to genuinely complicated tasks, but that would be a mistake.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 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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