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
In an act of due diligence, my doctor ordered a DEXA scan, an imaging test used to measure bone mineral density and from it extrapolate one’s future fracture risk.
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Alice Gregory, Vogue, 11 May 2026
Any realistic future, extrapolated from the present, will be a scary one, reflecting back to us our own warranted, present-tense vigilance.
—Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 8 May 2026
But Sean McCloud, chair of UNC Charlotte’s Religious Studies Department, cautions against extrapolating too much from a handful of dioceses and what’s on social media.
—Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 30 Apr. 2026
The team evaluated the size of the ancient octopuses using allometric calculation—a method that used the proportional growth rates of modern, long-bodied finned octopuses to extrapolate the size of their extinct relatives.
—Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 24 Apr. 2026
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Alice Gregory, Vogue, 11 May 2026
Any realistic future, extrapolated from the present, will be a scary one, reflecting back to us our own warranted, present-tense vigilance.
—Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 8 May 2026
But Sean McCloud, chair of UNC Charlotte’s Religious Studies Department, cautions against extrapolating too much from a handful of dioceses and what’s on social media.
—Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 30 Apr. 2026
The team evaluated the size of the ancient octopuses using allometric calculation—a method that used the proportional growth rates of modern, long-bodied finned octopuses to extrapolate the size of their extinct relatives.
—Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 24 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for extrapolate
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But petrochemicals derived from oil and gas production are found in more than 6,000 products consumers use daily – including aspirin, keyboards, perfumes, contact lenses and vitamin capsules.—
Pippa Stevens,Macklin Fishman,
CNBC,
24 May 2026
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The 25–75 basis point range should be read as an illustrative stress test, not as a point estimate derived from a structural model.—
Shivaram Rajgopal,
Forbes.com,
24 May 2026
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Even so, there is a real responsibility on the introverted leader to understand how their natural tendencies land with the people around them and how to be most effective within that awareness.—
Bill Koch,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2026
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The colonies understood the British threat.—
Richard Torrenzano,
Fortune,
26 May 2026
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The hospital decides not to airlift Roberta (Paola Núñez), who quickly becomes an emergency case when Camille (Natalie Zea) determines that her aneurysm has ruptured.—
Britt Hayes,
Entertainment Weekly,
23 May 2026
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November 22 – December 21 A practical detail around money, access, or trust may decide whether a serious conversation gets easier or stranger.—
Tarot.com,
Baltimore Sun,
23 May 2026
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The phrasing is widely believed to infer the next move would be a cut.—
Jeff Cox,
CNBC,
20 May 2026
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The platform should generate MCP tools at runtime, discovering sources, inferring schema semantics and exposing them to agents without manual configuration while updating the ontology in near real time.—
Shailesh Manjrekar,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2026
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“Extrapolate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/extrapolate. Accessed 29 May. 2026.
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