How to Use extrapolate in a Sentence

extrapolate

verb
Definition of extrapolatenext
Synonyms for extrapolatenext
  • We can extrapolate the number of new students entering next year by looking at how many entered in previous years.
  • With such a small study it is impossible to extrapolate accurately.
  • But the coach is careful not to extrapolate too much from one play like that.
    — Katherine Fitzgerald, azcentral, 4 Nov. 2019
  • One option is to record whale calls and try to extrapolate from that.
    — Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 26 Feb. 2020
  • The odds are that less of the language is needed to extrapolate what the language consists of.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
  • That said, the automaker did tell us to look at the difference in price between the CX-50 and the CX-5 and extrapolate from there.
    — Andrew Krok, Car and Driver, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Don't extrapolate and think that all pit bulls do this.
    — Tom Junod, Esquire, 14 July 2014
  • Don’t be put off by the paces these athletes run—extrapolate the lesson to your pace.
    — Carl Leivers, Outside Online, 20 June 2019
  • This would be good for one of the best offenses in the N.B.A., extrapolated over a full season.
    — New York Times, 24 Jan. 2020
  • That should help scientists extrapolate from the little crime-scene shards left in sharks to the full swordfish that did the deed.
    — Joshua Sokol, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2020
  • And before that seed has time to blossom, there are people who glom on and extrapolate way too far.
    — Angela Chen, The Verge, 7 Aug. 2018
  • If fish have gills to extrapolate oxygen from the water even at depth, how do mudskippers breathe in the open air?
    — Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 9 May 2023
  • But Mason said the new report can’t be used to extrapolate the total spilled from the Taylor site.
    — Washington Post, 24 June 2019
  • Now, extrapolate that process over the thousands of parts that go into a computer or a car.
    — Benny Buller, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The authors then extrapolated their findings across the top 30-refugee hosting countries, which host 90% of the world's refugees.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 25 July 2019
  • But can Gose take those initial successes and extrapolate them out over the course of an entire season for the Guardians in 2022?
    — Joe Noga, cleveland, 1 Dec. 2021
  • This panel extrapolates one the future of clubbing culture and imagines what the dance floor could look like in 2030.
    — Kat Bein, Billboard, 14 Oct. 2019
  • In the most studies focus on or the , and the data cannot be extrapolated to the novel coronavirus.
    — Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2020
  • The company then extrapolates those numbers to come up with the data.
    — Marco Santana, OrlandoSentinel.com, 7 June 2018
  • From that base of survey data, the researchers extrapolated to the whole island and came up with a range of excess deaths.
    — Washington Post, 4 June 2018
  • One tried and true method is to extrapolate the age of the oldest craters from the characteristics of the planet’s newest ones.
    — Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 19 Jan. 2021
  • Researchers have to extrapolate from the number of nests observed.
    — The Economist, 22 Feb. 2018
  • All of that is true, and extrapolating outward from this race to future races is therefore fraught.
    — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2017
  • Not much can be extrapolated from that game, plain and simple.
    — Daniel Rapaport, SI.com, 14 Jan. 2018
  • The new minute-long teaser for The First Omen doesn’t extrapolate much on this plot synopsis, but it is stuffed with sinister vibes.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Can’t help but maybe extrapolate that perhaps the Jazz just aren’t really good enough.
    — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Mar. 2022
  • Not to mention how to extrapolate the effects of the drug on people over 70, the maximum age at which the study enrolled patients.
    — Michael Nedelman, CNN, 31 July 2019
  • Some argue the results of the study, which was mostly confined to one slope, are too limited to extrapolate.
    — Ula Chrobak, Outside Online, 19 Mar. 2018
  • And most of the treatments for male breast cancer are extrapolated from what the standard treatments are for women.
    — Gillian Telling, Peoplemag, 26 Jan. 2024
  • The Rig can extrapolate into the future using data from the subject’s past.
    — Tade Thompson, Wired, 18 Dec. 2020

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