extrapolate
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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
“Investors tend to extrapolate recent performance. Periods of strong gains foster overconfidence.”
From Barron's • Feb. 13, 2026
“Even when we extrapolate the best-case scenario for chip production from our suppliers, it’s still not enough,” Musk said at the Nov. 6 annual meeting.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 19, 2025
Cash taxes can be transient, so it isn’t something the analyst would extrapolate.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025
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
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