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.
“You can’t extrapolate it to the general population, but it’s a very strong signal that the CDC needs to be mandating reporting of every breakthrough case,” Berrent said.
From Seattle Times
“We can’t take one report of packed bars and extrapolate and say the sky is falling. The sky is not falling. But it does say the vaccine is not infallible.”
From Seattle Times
Since most of the available evidence is based on products with a very low percent of THC, it’s hard to extrapolate those findings to the products on the shelf today, Ogle says.
From Scientific American
A: Markets peak when you are as happy as you can get, and a near-perfect economy is extrapolated into the indefinite future.
From Reuters
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