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
Across his 10 Premier League games in charge, Moyes has taken 17 points, which would work out at around 65 points when extrapolated across an entire season.
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Patrick Boyland, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
But Everton remain resurgent under Moyes, taking 21 points in his 13 league games in charge, which would work out at 61 points extrapolated across a whole season.
—Patrick Boyland, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
After all, one of the most prevalent cognitive-behavioral biases is recency which extrapolates the most recent conditions as far as the eye can see.
—James Berman, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
As well as providing guardrails for safe and reliable processes, physics enables data-efficient models that extrapolate scenarios without training data.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
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Patrick Boyland, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
But Everton remain resurgent under Moyes, taking 21 points in his 13 league games in charge, which would work out at 61 points extrapolated across a whole season.
—Patrick Boyland, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
After all, one of the most prevalent cognitive-behavioral biases is recency which extrapolates the most recent conditions as far as the eye can see.
—James Berman, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
As well as providing guardrails for safe and reliable processes, physics enables data-efficient models that extrapolate scenarios without training data.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for extrapolate
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This includes Francoise Bettencourt Meyers of France, an heiress to the L’Oreal fortune who is worth $86 billion, by far the largest fortune to derive from a pure beauty company.—
Jemima McEvoy,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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Naturally derived emulsifiers may not always be better.—
Fran Kritz,
Verywell Health,
30 May 2025
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For a long time, a very evolved, smart person that makes poor choices sometimes can still understand what that means.—
Daniel D'Addario,
Variety,
30 May 2025
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The Times spoke to both sides, as well as multiple experts to better understand the high-stakes litigation, which faces obstacles but could shake up California’s home insurance industry.—
Hailey Branson-Potts,
Los Angeles Times,
30 May 2025
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As mentioned above, there are myriad factors—international transportation bottlenecks, natural disasters and supplier insolvency, among others—that need to be considered simultaneously in real time to decide what’s best for the business.—
Sadagopan S,
Forbes.com,
29 May 2025
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Those include the major questions doctrine, which says Congress needs to give clear authorization for federal agencies to decide issues of major economic significance, and the nondelegation doctrine, which holds that Congress can't delegate its legislative power to the executive branch.—
Joe Walsh,
CBS News,
29 May 2025
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At the heart of this code disclosure is something called the Fact Graph, a dry name for a tool that is quietly revolutionary: a logic engine that parses ambiguous tax scenarios and infers relationships while consistently applying tax rules.—
Andrew Leahey,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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The machine responded: one word, then another, and another—each new term inferred from the patterns buried in those seven thousand books.—
Benjamin Wallace-Wells,
New Yorker,
19 May 2025
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“Extrapolate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/extrapolate. Accessed 9 Jun. 2025.
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