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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But the work involved more than just extrapolating that data back over the three billion years it’s taken Mars to dry out.
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Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 6 Sep. 2024
All three characters in Taddeo’s book are white, one of many obstacles to her goal of extrapolating universal themes from individual stories.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 13 Sep. 2024
Typical polling extrapolates the pulse of American voters from a few hundred or thousand responses.
—Jim Sergent, USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2024
As each track progresses, the listener could extrapolate that the songs are about romantic love and loss.
—Jae-Ha Kim, Rolling Stone, 6 Sep. 2024
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Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 6 Sep. 2024
All three characters in Taddeo’s book are white, one of many obstacles to her goal of extrapolating universal themes from individual stories.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 13 Sep. 2024
Typical polling extrapolates the pulse of American voters from a few hundred or thousand responses.
—Jim Sergent, USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2024
As each track progresses, the listener could extrapolate that the songs are about romantic love and loss.
—Jae-Ha Kim, Rolling Stone, 6 Sep. 2024
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