extrapolate

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I'll try not to extrapolate this light bit of reading into a narrative about your awareness of the world at large.

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draw from specific cases for more general cases

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verb

draw from specific cases for more general cases

verb

estimate the value of

verb

gain knowledge of (an area not known or experienced) by extrapolating

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for extrapolate.

verb

draw from specific cases for more general cases

verb

estimate the value of

verb

gain knowledge of (an area not known or experienced) by extrapolating

Example sentences

I'll try not to extrapolate this light bit of reading into a narrative about your awareness of the world at large.

Take this single piece of difference, and then extrapolate it to every other aspect of culture.

Always annoying but often right as he would take what was proposed, extrapolate two, three, or a half dozen steps and then point out the now 'obvious' flaw.

And within 2 years it will be used by more than 100% of people worldwide!As my maths teacher used to say, "even in the privacy of your own home, you should not extrapolate.

To keep quibbling over the minutiae and extrapolate that to mean something more than it is, to me, is more whining than anything else.

He's writing about weapons, of course, but the arguments are presented in such a fashion that you can easily extrapolate the lessons to really any kind of product.

In addition, courts have consistently refused to extrapolate a generalized right to bodily and physical health from the Supreme Courts narrow substantive due process precedents regarding abortion, intimate relations, and the refusal of lifesaving medical treatment.