Example Sentences

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At its most intense and celebrated, the bleak-futures series Black Mirror has extrapolated from common technologies and tech-related social structures and projected ways for them to go terribly wrong.

From The Verge • Jun. 7, 2019

The Brazilian singer-songwriter Caetano Veloso, now 71, has extrapolated from bossa nova, his truest musical precedent, with the force of a Kabbalist.

From New York Times • Mar. 24, 2014

The acting style he has extrapolated for himself out of his own memory and his great talent is a reserved, tentative thing that depends on his stores of introspection and secret turmoil.

From Time Magazine Archive