extrapolate
verb
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The Many Uses of Extrapolate
Scientists worry about the greenhouse effect because they have extrapolated the rate of carbon-dioxide buildup and predicted that its effect on the atmosphere will become increasingly severe. On the basis of their extrapolations, they have urged governments and businesses to limit factory and automobile emissions. Notice that it's acceptable to speak of extrapolating existing data (to produce new data), extrapolating from existing data (to produce new data), or extrapolating new data (from existing data)—in other words, it isn't easy to use this word wrong.
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Jim Sergent, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2024
This has left digital media and child development experts to extrapolate and hypothesize about the possible pitfalls and benefits.
—Emily Tate Sullivan, WIRED, 29 Oct. 2024
Jayne and their team also realized additional implications after studying and extrapolating the scalability ratio between their mouth gapes and cranial structures.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 24 Oct. 2024
Product managers must understand the innovation, and extrapolate with engineering where the technology will be in a few years.
—Aparna Sinha, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
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“Extrapolate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/extrapolate. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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extrapolate
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