• The figures are wildly optimistic, and could only have been extrapolated from a very small medical trial.
• We obtained a picture of the economy by extrapolating past trends.
• By a process of extrapolation, it can be estimated that there are about 3,500 professionals employed in the industry.
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Speaking about global warming, she said that time periods of 15 and even 30 years are too brief to extrapolate changes in climate patterns.
extrapolate (sth) from sth »We as economists tend to just predict the future by extrapolating from the past.
»extrapolate trends/patterns/risks
»extrapolate figures/data/numbers
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