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How to use the word extrapolate in a Sentence?

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I think Texas Rep. Pete Sessions can extrapolate.

Scott Perry

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The many theories that are arising today make it quite clear that we humans are a resilient, curious species, we have a fundamental desire to understand the complexity of our conscious experience and to extrapolate objective truths that can lead us toward a new renaissance.

Luis Elizondo

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Ford Foundation's critical to consider the totality of Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans if one is to assess the racial impacts of Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans, it would be unwise to extrapolate from an analysis of savings preferences to the whole tax system.

Mihir Desai

Found on CNN
3 years ago

If we can get that idea across and quit having people extrapolate from past experience, that would be a helpful change in perspective and help build the bridge to the other side of this.

James Bullard

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

There wasn't a lot of research around how this animal lived in the wild and so we had to extrapolate much of the information from its relatives.

Felipe Sotomayor

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It's exciting because it not only started from them, but it came from their heart, it was just incredible to be a part of it and say' what if' and see them take those' what ifs' and extrapolate it forward into something beautiful.

Lisa McAbee -LRB- right -RRB-

Found on CNN
4 years ago

When long-term interest rates fall, we see more people pay off their mortgages and that translates into more mortgage-backed securities being redeemed and that forces us to write off some premiums, i don't think you can extrapolate that into the future because long-term rates have stabilized at this point.

Chief Financial Officer Paul Donofrio

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Deciding when to get pregnant, or whether or not to get pregnant, can be an intensely personal decision. This data should not be used to influence decisions about childbearing, as the cancer risks observed are overall fairly modest, as well as on a large population level, and it's difficult to extrapolate these risks to an individual person, however, evaluating personal cancer risk in a premenopausal woman is important.

Erica Mayer

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I would not in any way attempt to extrapolate that to a change in our policy or posture relative to our military activities in Syria today. There has been no change in that status.

Rex Tillerson

Found on CNN
7 years ago

EPA is trying to extrapolate adult clinical test results involving ozone to populations with asthma, and younger populations, i don’t think there is wide agreement today that ozone causes asthma, though it does trigger asthmatic attacks. We have to be mindful that the respiration in these tests is probably greater than on most playgrounds.

Roger McClellan

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

There are differences between the way mice burn fat in the liver versus the way humans do, we also have tested the extracts, so we can’t extrapolate and advise people that they can eat grapes or drink wine and get this benefit. [It’s] way too premature. And don’t forget, healthy or not, they are adding calories to your diet. You can overeat healthy foods, and gain weight.

Neil Shay

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

There doesn’t seem to be a common core or thread that runs through it, The critical thing is to find our niche and extrapolate and exploit it ... We're not going to do everything, soup to nuts.

Craig Cooning

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

There doesn't seem to be a common core or thread that runs through it, The critical thing is to find our niche and extrapolate and exploit it ... We're not going to do everything, soup to nuts.

Craig Cooning

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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