extrapolate
Example Sentences
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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.
Their leaders pointed to polling estimates, extrapolated from the results of the local elections, that would still leave the opposition Labour Party relying on the support of smaller rivals to govern.
From New York Times
“Iris” unfolds more like a soliloquy than a song, as if it’s extrapolating from the jazziest impulses of Joni Mitchell.
From New York Times
She said many extrapolated on Mr Trump's remarks that she was "not his type", telling her she was "too ugly to go on living".
From BBC
You could really extrapolate that out to be, well, this is love under the current constraints in which I live.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
