Synonyms of prediction
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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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The author notes that prediction markets produced inaccurate results in the Texas GOP Senate primary, where Polymarket declared a candidate the clear winner at 83% probability when the actual vote margin was narrow enough to force a runoff.
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Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2026
The system, called FutureVision, is built on a model architecture that predicts how the physical world will change and then converts those predictions into robot actions.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 11 Mar. 2026
My job is to make predictions about Oscar voting, and that whole debacle took the internet by storm when the majority of Academy Awards ballots had already been filed.
—Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 11 Mar. 2026
People ultimately make the judgments that matter about what to predict and how to use predictions.
—Jon R. Lindsay, The Conversation, 11 Mar. 2026
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Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2026
The system, called FutureVision, is built on a model architecture that predicts how the physical world will change and then converts those predictions into robot actions.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 11 Mar. 2026
My job is to make predictions about Oscar voting, and that whole debacle took the internet by storm when the majority of Academy Awards ballots had already been filed.
—Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 11 Mar. 2026
People ultimately make the judgments that matter about what to predict and how to use predictions.
—Jon R. Lindsay, The Conversation, 11 Mar. 2026
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“Prediction.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prediction. Accessed 12 Mar. 2026.
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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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