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extrapolating

VERB

infer

Synonyms

STRONGEST

deduce hypothesize

STRONG

anticipate assume conclude envision figure foresee foretell guess predict project theorize

WEAK

make an educated guess see ahead

Antonyms

STRONG

doubt

Example Sentences

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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

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

Private-equity company Carlyle Group, extrapolating from companies in which it owns stakes, said Tuesday that it thinks overall U.S. jobs growth slid in September from an already weak official reading in August.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 8, 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