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.

From The Wall Street Journal

The idea was to really focus on the audience’s experience, on my experience as an audience member, and extrapolate that to other people’s experiences.

From Seattle Times

"But extrapolate this across millions of consumers and it makes a difference."

From BBC

The authors extrapolate from this data conclusions about what would happen if four-day work weeks became more common.

From Salon

He extrapolated from the number of respondents who said they knew someone who had died from the vaccine to conclude that the number of U.S. vaccine-related deaths “may be as high as 278,000.”

From Los Angeles Times