How to Use predictive in a Sentence

predictive

adjective
Definition of predictivenext
Synonyms for predictivenext
  • A lot of the predictive models say Ohio State should score in the mid-30s, and at first that sounded reasonable to me.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 21 Oct. 2022
  • The problem is that weak ties go down the tubes, and those are the most predictive thing for innovation.
    — Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Central blood pressure, or the pressure in the aorta—which sends blood from the heart out to the body—is a predictive measure of heart disease and stroke.
    — Cynthia Sass, Mph, Rd, Health, 20 Nov. 2023
  • But for now, researchers say, the predictive power of the principle seems to be holding up quite well.
    — Quanta Magazine, 13 Dec. 2021
  • One metric that has shown some predictive success is the U.S. Treasury yield curve.
    — Raul Elizalde, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
  • But the great upsets of years past are also reminders that there are limits to the predictive power of a New Hampshire vote.
    — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Just like in a string of predictive text, what happens next follows from what happened before.
    — Sarah Lewin Frasier, Scientific American, 25 Sep. 2024
  • Polls six months, five months, even closer to the election have zero predictive value.
    — Elizabeth Beyer, USA TODAY, 8 May 2024
  • The yield curve has predictive power that other markets don’t.
    — New York Times, 21 July 2022
  • In comparison, the total number of small meals was predictive of weight loss over time.
    — Jennifer Miao, ABC News, 18 Jan. 2023
  • The predictive power of AI can detect trends and eruptions, and human intelligence can then connect the dots — the best of both worlds.
    — Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 22 Feb. 2024
  • To the extent that national polling is strongly predictive of battleground-state polling, this wouldn't be the biggest deal.
    — Tommy Barone, ABC News, 11 July 2024
  • At the end of the day, an individual’s zip code is more predictive of their health outcomes than their genetic code.
    — Ashley Tyrner, Fortune, 2 June 2023
  • The same problems will likely plague the use of aseismic movement for predictive purposes, Jones says.
    — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 20 July 2023
  • Stone is known more for passionately backing movies than for harshly panning them, and her predictive instincts have been strong over the years.
    — Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Both studies used predictive language models to help guess words in sentences.
    — Pam Belluck, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The technology is a predictive algorithm that scrapes the web to calculate the most likely response to queries.
    — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Ryland impressed the judges by using numbers and letters to perform a predictive form of magic.
    — Isabelle Butera, USA TODAY, 6 July 2023
  • As a result, the balloon’s launch site will be chosen by predictive modeling, based on wind speed and direction.
    — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2024
  • In fact, the villainous Ritter (Bryan Cranston) wants to catch Elly since her spy novels have proven to be predictive of actual global events.
    — Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 4 Feb. 2024
  • This will bring hands-free lane changing, predictive speed assist, and in-lane repositioning.
    — Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Standards are also lacking on how much evidence is needed to prove that a predictive test is good enough to be used routinely in the clinic.
    — David Ewing Duncan, Scientific American, 7 Dec. 2022
  • So there’s a very strong pressure to believe whatever these vendors are saying about their predictive tools.
    — Quanta Magazine, 10 Mar. 2023
  • By 1715, with the first solar eclipse in many centuries approaching London, Halley’s predictive map was a mashup of ancient and modern ways of thinking.
    — Joshua Sokol, Quanta Magazine, 5 Apr. 2024
  • The predictive abilities of EKGs have been honed over time, and now, the same diagnostic ability is being used on a mass scale to process large amounts of data faster than any human could.
    — Rachel Murphy, Verywell Health, 18 Nov. 2023
  • Edwards says that predictive policing—using analytics to try and guess where metal thieves will strike next—could help.
    — Chris Baraniuk, WIRED, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Inputs at the edge are critical to the efficacy of a predictive maintenance plan.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Increasingly, voters also believe Harris can win — a measure that in the past has sometimes proved more predictive than head-to-head polling.
    — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2024
  • From a predictive standpoint, his numbers against the Dodgers have little meaning because of the limited meetings between the teams during Judge’s career.
    — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Similar to the way that calculators for high school algebra work, Markov chain Monte Carlo takes in a mathematical equation from the user and figures out the values of each variable that maximize the predictive accuracy of the model.
    — G. Elliott Morris, ABC News, 23 Oct. 2024

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