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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Flag football is categorically different, but the rules and play are derived from the game of football.—
James Brizuela,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 June 2025
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The $265,000 grant is derived from the Department of Industrial Relations, which receives state funding.—
Molly Gibbs,
Sacbee.com,
12 June 2025
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To understand how the deportation dragnet works, TIME joined ICE officers on a pair of morning raids in the New Orleans area.—
Eric Cortellessa,
Time,
10 June 2025
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These locations offered some refuge from legal risk at a time when the world had yet to understand or accept digital assets.—
Irina Heaver,
Forbes.com,
10 June 2025
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The attorney general said that after the Supreme Court sided with Glossip earlier this year, his office reviewed the merits of the case against him and decided there is sufficient evidence to secure another conviction.—
Melissa Quinn,
CBS News,
9 June 2025
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Clalit, after a review, decided to dismiss the complaint against Qasem Hassan.—
Eyal Press,
New Yorker,
9 June 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 15 Jun. 2025.
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