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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On the same call, chief financial officer Vaibhav Taneja said capital expenditures are expected to reach about $20 billion, far above many analysts’ predictions.
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Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 29 Jan. 2026
McIntyre has enlisted staff from his TV production team to help set up Fanalysis, which already has 40 people working on it and plans to expand into predictions and player transfer values, as well as to other leagues and sports.
—Tim Spiers, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2026
The company’s researchers are working to both boost what its predictive power is and better report how uncertain those predictions are.
—Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 28 Jan. 2026
Weather influencers often cite these graphics when making grand statements or predictions about an upcoming storm, sometimes even calling out the model data as inaccurate or biased.
—Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2026
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Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 29 Jan. 2026
McIntyre has enlisted staff from his TV production team to help set up Fanalysis, which already has 40 people working on it and plans to expand into predictions and player transfer values, as well as to other leagues and sports.
—Tim Spiers, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2026
The company’s researchers are working to both boost what its predictive power is and better report how uncertain those predictions are.
—Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 28 Jan. 2026
Weather influencers often cite these graphics when making grand statements or predictions about an upcoming storm, sometimes even calling out the model data as inaccurate or biased.
—Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2026
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“Prediction.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prediction. Accessed 1 Feb. 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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