extrapolate
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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
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
“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
You can’t just take an analysis of the past, no matter how careful it is, and assume you can extrapolate it into the future.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
“I can extrapolate from that; it’s clearly still effective.”
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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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
Voit’s total of 22 was the fewest for a major league leader since 1918 at the end of the dead ball era but extrapolates to 59 over a full season.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 2020
It extrapolates from current events to remind us of the ever-growing threats to liberty.
From Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
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 findings were then extrapolated to produce annual estimates.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 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
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“The market is likely extrapolating the swift, thus far, recovery of Mideast supply and already pricing expected future surpluses,” analysts at Goldman Sachs said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 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
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
Altogether it is thought–though it is really only a guess, based on extrapolating from cratering rates on the Moon–that some two thousand asteroids big enough to imperil civilized existence regularly cross our orbit.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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