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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of extrapolate.

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Examples

  • Thrilling graphics of Sabre Tooth Tigers prowling the Severn Tundra were set alongside piles of bodies accelerating towards the moon extrapolated from the population growth of a small Brazilian village, but no more.

    Archive 2007-10-21 Newmania 2007

  • Thrilling graphics of Sabre Tooth Tigers prowling the Severn Tundra were set alongside piles of bodies accelerating towards the moon extrapolated from the population growth of a small Brazilian village, but no more.

    Wake Up! Newmania 2007

  • The figure is extrapolated from the $88,000 sales reported by 500 respondents for a single week in September.

    November 2007 2007

  • Association officials said the survey results, if extrapolated from the 500 public libraries that responded, would amount to a total of some 600 formal inquires since 2001 ....

    06/21/2005 2005

  • Into one end he plugged the whole of reality as extrapolated from a piece of fairy cake, and into the other end he plugged his wife: so that when he turned it on she haw in one instant the whole infinity of creation and herself in relation to it.

    Archive 2004-12-01 Jonathan 2004

  • Into one end he plugged the whole of reality as extrapolated from a piece of fairy cake, and into the other end he plugged his wife: so that when he turned it on she haw in one instant the whole infinity of creation and herself in relation to it.

    You Are Here Jonathan 2004

  • This conclusion was extrapolated from the destruction wrought by blast, fire and radiation on

    International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War - Nobel Lecture 1985

  • Anyway, he goes on to say that Tri-State Tornado gave him ideas and from that I kind of extrapolated an idea for a sequel.

    Bill Paxton Wants a Twister Sequel, Has Met With the Studio! « FirstShowing.net 2010

  • "The Jetsons" actually made more sense because we just kind of extrapolated into the future of what all of these advances would be.

    CNN Transcript Nov 17, 2005 2005

  • So, then let's pretend that we actually agree with these 'extrapolated' figures that they've come up with.

    7.62mm Justice 2009

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