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

By understanding what New Horizons can see in its limited observations of these planets compared to Hubble’s views, astronomers can extrapolate that to understand remote views of similar exoplanets, too.

From Scientific American

“It can extrapolate and take ideas from different contexts and merge them together.”

From New York Times

Figures for years without officer counts were extrapolated from the average of officer counts submitted by the agency in other years.

From Washington Post

"We cannot extrapolate what happens in every meeting. What really matters is when rates peak and also when rate cuts happen, and none of that has changed since the comments Powell made yesterday," she said.

From Reuters