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noun

as in prediction
a declaration that something will happen in the future those annual predictings by self-styled psychics that grace the front pages of the tabloids

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adjective

as in forecasting

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predicting

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verb

present participle of predict
as in reading
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 predicting
Noun
With the 2025 college football season on the horizon, months of previewing and predicting soon will be in the rearview mirror. — Quentin Corpuel, Kansas City Star, 8 Aug. 2025
Verb
The initiative has not yet produced a universal virtual cell capable of accurately predicting arbitrary biological responses. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 7 Oct. 2026 That's a much different call than predicting Micron will earn dramatically more profits than the current Wall Street consensus. — Zev Fima, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2026 At the time of the January announcement, market watchers were already predicting how Anta could possibly help steer Puma out of its slump. — Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 7 Oct. 2026 Other analysts are already predicting that 2027 will be the year when AI capex starts to decelerate. — Jim Edwards, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2026 Furthermore, CNNs are exceeding in disease detection and predicting disease aggressiveness and patient prognosis. — Esha Desai, Hartford Courant, 4 Oct. 2026 Charlotte Observer predictions Panthers beat writer Alex Zietlow is 3-0 after coming close to predicting the exact score of Week 3’s 21-18 loss to the Browns. — Langston Wertz Jr, Charlotte Observer, 4 Oct. 2026 Planning earlier doesn’t mean predicting every future problem. — Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 30 Sep. 2026 The machine learning model does in a fraction of a second what took the original models days, predicting sea-level change with similar accuracy. — Robert Kopp, The Conversation, 30 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for predicting
  1. prediction
  2. reading
  3. forecasting
  4. anticipating
  5. forecast
  6. foretelling
  7. prognosticating
  8. warning
Noun
  • On Thursday, the hurricane center cranked up the predictions for rainfall for the panhandle.
    — Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 9 Oct. 2026
  • By then, despite the predictions, Callum was walking and talking.
    — Deepa Fernandes, STAT, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of prediction
Verb
  • The king-size bed had a pristine, cloud-white duvet and sheets; by the foot of it sat a lounge chair and ottoman ideal for reading.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Brainwave-reading sleep headbands and noise-masking sleep headphones look similar from the outside but work in very different ways.
    — Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of reading
Noun
  • An area of thunderstorms had hit this region in the Caribbean on Thursday night and could have contributed to the turbulence, Dan DePodwin, vice president of forecasting operations, told the Herald.
    — Vinod Sreeharsha, Miami Herald, 9 Oct. 2026
  • The organization disburses the funds as grants for projects, including trail maintenance, emergency first responder training and equipment, avalanche forecasting and more, according to its website.
    — Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of forecasting
Verb
  • Contrived or not, the models appeared to be reasoning about their own situations— forming plans, weighing consequences, anticipating countermoves.
    — Kevin Roose, Vanity Fair, 7 Oct. 2026
  • And in a region already suffering from aid shortages, and anticipating even greater food insecurity from this year’s El Nino, humanitarians are rightly nervous about a potential catastrophic fallout.
    — Cameron Hudson, semafor.com, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of anticipating
Noun
  • So don't limit your northern lights hunt to those forecast windows.
    — Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Barclays raised its forecasts for Henkel's haircare growth through 2028, with growth expected to accelerate further from the third quarter of 2027.
    — Sawdah Bhaimiya, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of forecast
Verb
  • But the drama here feels too diagrammatic, foretelling a tragic fate from the first scene onward as everyone parties down like their lives depend on it.
    — Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 22 May 2026
  • The Guardian similarly noted more than a dozen $100,000 bets on prediction markets foretelling the February air strikes on Iran, while The New York Times last month reported 150 bets of $1,000 or more predicting the start of the war.
    — Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 21 Apr. 2026
Definition of foretelling
Verb
  • Some 5,000 actresses were considered amid months of hysterical media prognosticating on who would wear the invisible halo next.
    — Michael Callahan, HollywoodReporter, 11 Sep. 2026
  • The new rule of thumb when prognosticating about the NBA trade deadline is to never say never — Luka Doncic is a Los Angeles Laker now — but the Nuggets are just too good to mess around with their playoff rotation over a tax bill.
    — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 1 Feb. 2026
Definition of prognosticating
Verb
  • As the midterms near, Republicans have started warning in sometimes dire terms about the possible repercussions.
    — Theodoric Meyer, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2026
  • The court documents also note that Mosleh made the sale of the products to a confidential informant after Strang's and Hamilton's deaths, even warning the informant that people had been dying from the product.
    — Robert McGreevy, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2026
Definition of warning

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