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Journalists have begun making predictions about the winner of the coming election.
Despite predictions that the store would fail, it has done very well.
The figures and statistics are used for the prediction of future economic trends.
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Equal temperatures and properties for the Universe even in causally disconnected regions; a Universe with a singular beginning made no such prediction.
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Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 23 Sep. 2025
While some are panicking about the potential event, others are poking fun at the prediction.
—Cailey Gleeson, jsonline.com, 23 Sep. 2025
Salva says on a scale of one to five, with one being basic text prediction and five being the ability to give AI a general vague command, AI software development is somewhere between stage three and four.
—Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2025
Historical predictions of a rapture have not yet come to pass, despite recurring every few years.
—Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Sep. 2025
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Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 23 Sep. 2025
While some are panicking about the potential event, others are poking fun at the prediction.
—Cailey Gleeson, jsonline.com, 23 Sep. 2025
Salva says on a scale of one to five, with one being basic text prediction and five being the ability to give AI a general vague command, AI software development is somewhere between stage three and four.
—Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2025
Historical predictions of a rapture have not yet come to pass, despite recurring every few years.
—Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Sep. 2025
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“Prediction.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prediction. Accessed 25 Sep. 2025.
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prediction
noun
pre·dic·tion
pri-ˈdik-shən 
1
: an act of predicting
2
: something predicted : forecast
a prediction that there would be an earthquake
predictive
adjective
-ˈdik-tiv
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