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extrapolate

[ik-strap-uh-layt] / ɪkˈstræp əˌleɪt /


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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

The names scratched into the posts no longer match the occupants, but I can extrapolate who’s who.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

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

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

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

"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

Most of us probably didn’t picture them extrapolating a story “based on a true rumor” into a comedy proposing the famous Texans may be half-siblings.

From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026

Deutsche Bank’s Tom Sykes noted that, although the results point to an underlying acceleration, the market might be cautious about extrapolating too much.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 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

Altogether it is thought–though it is really only a guess, based on extrapolating from cratering rates on the Moon–that some two thousand asteroids big enough to imperil civilized existence regularly cross our orbit.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson


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