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extrapolate

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


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“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

Mr Justice Nicklin started to ask what the best single piece of evidence for each article was, and Sherborne was forced to say: "We are asking your lordship to extrapolate."

From BBC Mar. 31, 2026

Hence, “markets were reluctant to extrapolate the print into a materially more dovish Fed path, helping the USD stabilize,” Wong adds.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 19, 2025

“Even when we extrapolate the best-case scenario for chip production from our suppliers, it’s still not enough,” he said.

From MarketWatch Nov. 8, 2025

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

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

The book extrapolates that this restaurant may have been the Knickerbocker Hotel.

From Salon Feb. 5, 2022

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

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 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 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

His head is full of statistics, facts and figures extrapolated into thousands of different combinations and comparisons.

From "Every Day" by David Levithan

That’s as they worry “markets are extrapolating near-term trends — including profits fueled by the investment boom itself — too far into the future.”

From MarketWatch Jun. 23, 2026

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

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

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




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