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• finding: It makes even less sense to extrapolate findings in young monkeys to old women.

• trend: It is dangerous to extrapolate these trends to the UK, however.

• figure: If we extrapolate these figures to Britain, some 111,000 people would have died, with 1.4 million people injured.

• result: To extrapolate the survey result to the public in general could be unwise, " he added.

• datum: Having drawn your graph, extrapolate the data for the next three months.

Used with why or when

• what: That's because standard toxicology tests use much higher doses to quickly but roughly extrapolate what happens in the real world.

Modifying Another Word

• reliably: We oppose animal experimentation, based on overwhelming scientific evidence that findings from animal models cannot be reliably extrapolated to humans.

• then: Results are then extrapolated to human studies, either health or in certain clinical states.

• forward: Will include glass mass balances and waste materials arising, extrapolated forward on a national basis.

• simply: Argument of extremes The argument of extremes simply extrapolates each side of the argument to the point where they become unreal.

• directly: Of course you can't extrapolate directly from a chicken to a man.

Preposition: from

• experiment: It is not possible to extrapolate from animal experiments to human studies.

• experience: We extrapolate from recent experience into the unknown, often coming to quite incorrect conclusions.