extrapolate
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Fans of the strategy point to the human tendency to extrapolate from past results—and chase investment returns—noting that momentum patterns have been evident in markets for decades, even centuries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
The West Coast appellate judges said it was “inappropriate” to extrapolate intent from one element of the crime, such as making a contract, to another, like the agreed-upon death.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026
There’s another reason not to extrapolate recent decades’ huge success for U.S. equities.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 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
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Ms. Snider’s libretto fictionalizes and extrapolates from the historical record.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 12, 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
He extrapolates that it’s because Pullman is so far-flung, “just not hugely impacted by these things the way it would be in a city.”
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 2023
It extrapolates from current events to remind us of the ever-growing threats to liberty.
From Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
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
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
The findings were then extrapolated to produce annual estimates.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 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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I remember thinking that wealth is a great barrier to harm and then feeling silly for extrapolating my own experience once again.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2026
No matter the reading, investors should be careful about extrapolating March’s trend into the coming months.
From Barron's ● Apr. 12, 2026
Lastly, Hsueh estimates that mined gold for full-year 2025, extrapolating from the first nine months of the year, will reach 3,693 tonnes which is a very modest response to the higher prices.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 26, 2025
Analysts calculate a $9.7 billion worst-case scenario, extrapolating the $20 million verdict to all 20,000 potential plaintiffs, based on historic average settlement rates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025
But there are good reasons to be very careful in extrapolating from modern forager societies to ancient ones.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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