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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
extrapolate .
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Examples
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Nielsen extrapolates from a small number of viewers whose TVs have meters installed.
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It may look like science fiction because of the use of science fiction tropes, but unless the author either a) tweaks with a law known to science or b) extrapolates from a known science or theory, the story ain't science fiction in my book.
A Visual Genre? joshenglish 2007
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In contrast, she extrapolates from a national survey conducted for the American Association of University Women Educational Foundation in 2000 that roughly 290,000 students experienced some sort of physical sexual abuse by a public school employee between 1991 and 2000.
HOW EVIL WORKS DAVID KUPELIAN 2010
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In contrast, she extrapolates from a national survey conducted for the American Association of University Women Educational Foundation in 2000 that roughly 290,000 students experienced some sort of physical sexual abuse by a public school employee between 1991 and 2000.
HOW EVIL WORKS DAVID KUPELIAN 2010
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It is so wrong in my opinion how the NRA extrapolates four words in the Constitution ( 'keep and bear arms') into wanting assualt weapons to remain legal, wanting concealed weapons to be carried into National Parks and now bars in Arizona, and basically equating 'self-defense' into the easy and convenient ability to shoot and kill anyone, anytime, anywhere .... just because the NRA member happened to 'feel threatened' at the moment.
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Like science fiction, he writes, prehistoric fiction extrapolates from scientific discourse, in this case paleoanthropology.
Cave Man Stories 2009
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Then Arends extrapolates this strategy and tells an anecdotal story of "one of the best investors I have known".
Dan Solin: A Novel Investing Strategy From the WSJ Dan Solin 2010
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Perhaps, if one extrapolates from Obama's sibylline statement: Mitt Romney gives the impression of being too much of a secularist and not enough a Christian or too much the supporter of a cult?
Denis Lacorne: Secularists Or Christian? The Religious Lives Of American Political Candidates In The Public Sphere Denis Lacorne 2011
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Then Arends extrapolates this strategy and tells an anecdotal story of "one of the best investors I have known".
Dan Solin: A Novel Investing Strategy From the WSJ Dan Solin 2010
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In contrast, the GISS analysis extrapolates data in those regions using information from the nearest available monitoring stations, and thus has more complete coverage of the polar areas.
Think Progress » Fifteen States Have Polluter-Driven Resolutions To Deny Climate Threat 2010
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