as in prophetic
being a sign of a later course of events
unfortunately, the stock market crash of 1929 turned out to be a predictive event, for the next decade was consumed by the Great Depression
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Recent Examples of predictive
Machine learning is helping startups model new innovations to enhance clinical trials, power personalized medicine tailored to each patient’s biology and achieve predictive diagnostics with unthinkable accuracy.
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Chicago Tribune, 20 May 2025
The cockpit’s Rockwell Collins Pro Line Fusion avionics suite includes synthetic vision guidance that overlays 3-D terrain data, a head-up Display for flight data, predictive wind shear detection, and vertical weather radar.
—Daniel Cote, Robb Report, 19 May 2025
Ideologies are our brains’ way of solving the problem of uncertainty in the world because our brains are these incredible predictive organs.
—Sean Illing, Vox, 12 May 2025
Creating Operational Digital Twins Intelligent cloud enables operational digital twins—real-time virtual replicas of business operations that combine IoT data, AI analytics and predictive modeling.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
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Chicago Tribune, 20 May 2025
The cockpit’s Rockwell Collins Pro Line Fusion avionics suite includes synthetic vision guidance that overlays 3-D terrain data, a head-up Display for flight data, predictive wind shear detection, and vertical weather radar.
—Daniel Cote, Robb Report, 19 May 2025
Ideologies are our brains’ way of solving the problem of uncertainty in the world because our brains are these incredible predictive organs.
—Sean Illing, Vox, 12 May 2025
Creating Operational Digital Twins Intelligent cloud enables operational digital twins—real-time virtual replicas of business operations that combine IoT data, AI analytics and predictive modeling.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for predictive
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Whatever the story, prophetic energy can survive, awaiting a new commander to channel it toward a more ambitious purification.—
Manvir Singh,
New Yorker,
17 May 2025
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At a time of increasing divisions, wars and conflicts, the 2025 conclave has opened an extraordinary new page for the church with the choice of Leo, a bridge-builder and quietly prophetic pope.—
Christopher Lamb,
CNN Money,
11 May 2025
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With the two men mismatched in temperament and direction, Diller was gone in a year and a half—fleeing one sinister Davis (Martin) for the arms of another, equally sinister one (Marvin), who controlled Twentieth Century Fox.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
19 May 2025
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Though it was written around the time of Malibu’s Woolsey fire, the 14-minute long dirge that encompasses flames in Malibu and a cougar that roams the hills took on a new and sinister meaning in the aftermath of the more recent fires.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
19 May 2025
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“Predictive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/predictive. Accessed 30 May. 2025.
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