as in to derive
to form an opinion or reach a conclusion through reasoning and information
we can extrapolate from past economic recessions the probable course of the current one
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Recent Examples of extrapolate
Typical smart scales only have foot electrodes, and solely use lower-body data to extrapolate total body composition.
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Victoria Song, The Verge, 5 Jan. 2026
Noise around some assumptions used to plug missing data from the government shutdown kept investors from extrapolating too much from the benign reading.
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 18 Dec. 2025
North Korea does not regularly publish demographic figures, so analysts must extrapolate from past censuses and indirect surveys.
—Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Nov. 2025
Investors may imply excessive aggregate revenue and profit gains by extrapolating the stunning earnings growth achievable by individual companies across all potential winners.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 17 Nov. 2025
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Victoria Song, The Verge, 5 Jan. 2026
Noise around some assumptions used to plug missing data from the government shutdown kept investors from extrapolating too much from the benign reading.
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 18 Dec. 2025
North Korea does not regularly publish demographic figures, so analysts must extrapolate from past censuses and indirect surveys.
—Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Nov. 2025
Investors may imply excessive aggregate revenue and profit gains by extrapolating the stunning earnings growth achievable by individual companies across all potential winners.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 17 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for extrapolate
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At the core of this approach is a carbon shell derived from covalent organic frameworks (COFs).—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Jan. 2026
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Skinny Pedro’s obsession might therefore derive from some sort of insanity.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
12 Jan. 2026
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Used by more than just psychiatrists, the DSM is considered the very foundation of how mental health issues are understood.—
Jen Christensen,
CNN Money,
28 Jan. 2026
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Minas Panagiotakis / Getty Images MONTREAL — Cole Caufield arrived for his on-air interview between the second and third periods Tuesday night understanding the exact situation in which his Montreal Canadiens found themselves.—
Arpon Basu,
New York Times,
28 Jan. 2026
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It’s been a year since Brown decided to skip college and turn his eyes onto the professional game.—
Jacob Lev,
CNN Money,
24 Jan. 2026
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With Antetokounmpo sidelined, the Bucks could decide to pivot into more of a youth movement and let losses organically begin to pile up.—
Bryan Toporek,
Forbes.com,
24 Jan. 2026
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As a result, researchers are focusing on indirect readout strategies that can infer the electron’s spin state without disturbing the fragile quantum system.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
17 Jan. 2026
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People start to infer meaning from the gap, even when there isn’t any.—
Penny Abeywardena,
Forbes.com,
16 Jan. 2026
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“Extrapolate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/extrapolate. Accessed 28 Jan. 2026.
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