- present participle of extrapolate.
extrapolating
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
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
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
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
