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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Both times, social media dissected Yang’s body language and extrapolated his discomfort.
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Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
As a result of this gender bias, insights into various diseases and findings about medications have often been extrapolated from men and applied to women.
—Stacey Colino, TIME, 1 Nov. 2024
This allows pollsters, in theory, to extrapolate information about the general voting population from a biased handful of responses.
—Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 31 Oct. 2024
Goldstein was given free rein to extrapolate material from Joan’s books, documentaries, stand-up sets and joke catalogs, even if it was never performed.
—Ashley Lee, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2024
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Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
As a result of this gender bias, insights into various diseases and findings about medications have often been extrapolated from men and applied to women.
—Stacey Colino, TIME, 1 Nov. 2024
This allows pollsters, in theory, to extrapolate information about the general voting population from a biased handful of responses.
—Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 31 Oct. 2024
Goldstein was given free rein to extrapolate material from Joan’s books, documentaries, stand-up sets and joke catalogs, even if it was never performed.
—Ashley Lee, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2024
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The original data was derived from the Terra Property Trust Inc. 6.00% Notes due 2026 quarterly 10-Q report dated November 8, 2024.Quartz Bot, Quartz, 8 Nov. 2024
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The report noted that Google’s content investment is derived from YouTube and investment in programming via their revenue-sharing arrangements with content creators.Brad Adgate, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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If not, it’s understood that the host will treat the group.Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
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The opportunity to understand what went wrong vanished when Onyxx was cremated.Audrey Dutton, ProPublica, 11 Nov. 2024
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Unfortunately, for this exact reason, the studios decided to steer clear of the second weekend of November, which means there’s nothing else to talk about.Nate Jones, Vulture, 9 Nov. 2024
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Several important House races have still yet to be decided.Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024
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Like tree rings, they can be used to infer developmental speeds and timing.Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 13 Nov. 2024
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For more than a decade, astronomers have been searching that area for a hidden planet that has never been observed, but its presence is inferred by the behavior of other nearby objects.Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 5 Nov. 2024
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