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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

“Nithya, she’ll probably go up because there’s going to be a fair amount of Democratic votes and she’ll get her chunk, but will she catch Pratt? You can extrapolate it either way,” Murphy said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 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

Merely rational thought—forgive me for preaching, but I must, I must!—merely rational thought leaves the mind incurably crippled in a closed and ossified system, it can only extrapolate from the past.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner

Ms. Snider’s libretto fictionalizes and extrapolates from the historical record.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 12, 2026

Other data extrapolates from animal experiments or cases in which people have undergone brain damage to infer what is happening in functional brain regions.

From Salon ● May 7, 2025

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

The paradox arises only if we insist on describing horizons using a single, one-sided arrow of time extrapolated to infinity — an assumption quantum mechanics itself does not require.

From Science Daily ● May 22, 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

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 ● Nov. 27, 2025

And this can be extrapolated backward in time, so that when I speak, Desdemona speaks, too.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

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

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

So scientists have been running experiments monitoring how microbes degrade biochar over a few years in soil, then extrapolating that over longer time scales.

From Salon ● Mar. 7, 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