as in to read
to tell of or describe beforehand
I can't even begin to predict what housing prices will be like 30 years from now
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Recent Examples of predict
Among other retailers, Dick’s Sporting Goods will report earnings on Tuesday, and Cramer predicted the quarter will be positive.
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Julie Coleman, CNBC, 8 Mar. 2025
Armed with that information, scientists are more focused than ever on creating a model that can predict atmospheric rivers, which so far have evaded that ability.
—Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2025
While the country is still heavily reliant on coal, estimates predict that by 2026 solar will overtake the fossil fuel as China’s leading energy source.
—Simmone Shah, TIME, 7 Mar. 2025
Over-fitting forces the model to be specialized to the low amount of data and thus cannot predict accurately.
—Vipin Bharathan, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
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Julie Coleman, CNBC, 8 Mar. 2025
Armed with that information, scientists are more focused than ever on creating a model that can predict atmospheric rivers, which so far have evaded that ability.
—Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2025
While the country is still heavily reliant on coal, estimates predict that by 2026 solar will overtake the fossil fuel as China’s leading energy source.
—Simmone Shah, TIME, 7 Mar. 2025
Over-fitting forces the model to be specialized to the low amount of data and thus cannot predict accurately.
—Vipin Bharathan, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for predict
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My heart started pounding a little after Sigmon's lawyer read his final statement.—
Jeffrey Collins,
CBS News,
8 Mar. 2025
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Aside from – but not in place of – the pleasure, the experience, and the life balance, reading, more than any other activity, develops our critical thinking skills, the glaring lack of which was fully on display during the 2024 election campaign.—
Eli Amdur,
Forbes,
8 Mar. 2025
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But Kline said the scale of the warehouse is something that homeowners could never have anticipated.—
Kenneth R. Gosselin,
Hartford Courant,
9 Mar. 2025
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No one should have anticipated what Williams had done.—
Louisa Thomas,
The New Yorker,
9 Mar. 2025
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Kessler’s hiring could foretell antitrust litigation that would rattle a hockey world already coming to terms with the NCAA allowing more junior players to join Division I college teams.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
25 Jan. 2025
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Written soon after the death of Mahler’s daughter and soon before his own, the symphony is a sombre, reflective, and reverberant adieu, brewing such melancholy that Leonard Bernstein theorized that Mahler was foretelling his own end.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
10 Jan. 2025
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Still, that put profits per share 16 cents ahead of the $2.25 analysts forecast.—
Evan Clark,
WWD,
4 Mar. 2025
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The first step is to develop a stress-testing mindset when forecasting future growth.—
Laura Clayton McDonnell,
Forbes,
4 Mar. 2025
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Green was removed from the chamber at the order of House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., who warned him several times to stop interrupting Trump.—
Dan Mangan,
CNBC,
5 Mar. 2025
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The first of two back-to-back atmospheric rivers will spread rain across San Diego County from Wednesday afternoon to early Thursday, before a second wave follows Thursday night, says the National Weather Service, which also warned of possible lightning west of the mountains.—
Gary Robbins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 Mar. 2025
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Utah The Hotline undoubtedly has a more optimistic view of Utah’s prospects than most others in the prognosticating business.—
Jon Wilner,
The Mercury News,
28 Jan. 2025
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That hasn’t stopped our stalwart insiders from viewing them and preferentially voting in 10 Oscar categories (most points for most likely, or most hoped for, to succeed) for your prognosticating pleasure.—
Michael Ordoña,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Nov. 2024
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And just as that communication breakdown presaged an explosion, so too did this one.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA TODAY,
7 Mar. 2025
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State of play: Councilwoman Rebecca Maurer and Council President Blaine Griffin went at each other in public remarks, presaging what could be a larger ideological battle about the new ward map.—
Sam Allard,
Axios,
26 Nov. 2024
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In October 2024, the Democrat announced he and others, including Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, would be pushing to more than double the current allotment, bringing the cap up to $750 million a year.—
Harrison Richlin,
IndieWire,
1 Mar. 2025
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Sheriffs also announced Friday that both Hackman and Arakawa's bodies tested negative for carbon monoxide, ruling out poisoning from the gas.—
Charna Flam,
People.com,
1 Mar. 2025
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“Predict.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/predict. Accessed 15 Mar. 2025.
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