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

“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

"This makes it problematic to extrapolate these past extinction patterns into the future, because the drivers are rapidly changing, particularly with respect to habitat loss and climate change."

From Science Daily • Oct. 27, 2025

Then, after all your manipulations are complete, you take the limit: you extrapolate and figure out where the expression is headed.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife