extrapolate
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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
“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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