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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 extrapolated
And so obviously, there’s a lot of narratives that get extrapolated from that.
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Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2026
Peter Walker, head of insights at Carta, extrapolated the blue and red findings into a bar chart.
—Jake Angelo, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2026
The findings can’t be extrapolated to the real world — the scenarios were extreme, with the regimes often facing first strikes or annihilation — but revealed AIs’ skill at strategic reasoning, as well as a certain bloodthirstiness.
—Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 4 Mar. 2026
Big fantastical ones, but also ones that feel so normalized and mundane and get extrapolated to their most dystopian and absurd.
—Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Jan. 2026
These puzzles, like the horizon problem, the flatness problem, and the monopole problem, strongly suggested that the hot, dense, early state couldn’t be extrapolated to arbitrarily high temperatures and energies.
—Big Think, 22 Oct. 2025
The scientists extrapolated its remains to estimate that the dinosaur was about 23 feet in length and weighed more than 2,200 pounds, according to the paper.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 24 Sep. 2025
While my research focused on the Iraqi context, the results can be extrapolated to emerging markets at large.
—Midhat Zwayen, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
The same information can be extrapolated by anyone above and below the title.
—Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 20 Aug. 2025
Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2026
Peter Walker, head of insights at Carta, extrapolated the blue and red findings into a bar chart.
—Jake Angelo, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2026
The findings can’t be extrapolated to the real world — the scenarios were extreme, with the regimes often facing first strikes or annihilation — but revealed AIs’ skill at strategic reasoning, as well as a certain bloodthirstiness.
—Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 4 Mar. 2026
Big fantastical ones, but also ones that feel so normalized and mundane and get extrapolated to their most dystopian and absurd.
—Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Jan. 2026
These puzzles, like the horizon problem, the flatness problem, and the monopole problem, strongly suggested that the hot, dense, early state couldn’t be extrapolated to arbitrarily high temperatures and energies.
—Big Think, 22 Oct. 2025
The scientists extrapolated its remains to estimate that the dinosaur was about 23 feet in length and weighed more than 2,200 pounds, according to the paper.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 24 Sep. 2025
While my research focused on the Iraqi context, the results can be extrapolated to emerging markets at large.
—Midhat Zwayen, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
The same information can be extrapolated by anyone above and below the title.
—Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 20 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for extrapolated
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Over 99% of global plastics are derived from fossil fuels, according to the Center for International Environmental Law.—
Julian Torres,
CNN Money,
30 Mar. 2026
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Wei’s goods are made with polypropylene, a plastic material derived from oil and made in the Middle East, a dominant producer in the global industry.—
Eunice Yoon,
CNBC,
30 Mar. 2026
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Stout, who has a doctorate in clinical psychology and has worked in the mental health field her entire career, understood what her uncle needed, and Hochheiser himself wasn’t shy.—
Carol Marbin Miller,
Miami Herald,
2 Apr. 2026
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In the ’90s and 2000s, under Senegalese presidents Abdou Diouf and Abdoulaye Wade, who extended Leopold Senghor’s vision of art as statecraft, Dak’Art benefited from government backing not just as a matter of policy but because these presidents understood that culture mattered.—
Smooth Nzewi,
Artforum,
2 Apr. 2026
Verb
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The other day, an observer decided to follow one of these parcels, chosen at random—a featherweight, toaster-size box from Sephora, addressed to 235 West Forty-eighth Street—and chart its journey.—
Henry Alford,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2026
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The Nuggets decided to rule him out as a precautionary measure.—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
30 Mar. 2026
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