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.

From The Wall Street Journal

If we can algorithmically orient the human body toward the single goal of not dying, then, he said, we can somehow extrapolate that process to the planet itself.

From New York Times

This critical length scale represents the point below which all relevant information about small-scale eddies can be extrapolated from the larger ones.

From Science Daily

“All this shows markets may extrapolate a lot from one piece of data or central bank comment.”

From Seattle Times

The authors extrapolated from this finding to estimate how many infant deaths, overall, were attributable to flooding in Bangladesh over the time period they studied.

From Salon