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

Legendary investor Jeremy Grantham suggests that markets extrapolate current conditions into the future, rather than predicting significant changes.

From Barron's • Jan. 29, 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