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He said he was "extrapolating" that from the efficacy of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine which used "similar technology" to the Oxford jab and had similar immune effects.

From BBC • Feb. 8, 2021

Schnapf was extrapolating from a common suspicion about JFK’s death.

From Salon • Mar. 26, 2017

He said because he was extrapolating forward by 26 years, he looked back 26 years, to 1958, to take stock of how much had changed.

From Chicago Tribune • Dec. 20, 2010

Our challenge was extrapolating our views on how to live our lives and raise our children into what we need in a home.

From Architectural Digest • Sep. 1, 2010

This principle of ever-more-exact measurement derives from Tycho Brahe; in tightening up the relationship between evidence and theory in physics, Galileo was extrapolating from the practices of the astronomers.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton