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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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But that’s not stopping the prediction markets from making a guess.
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Chris Morris, Fortune, 10 July 2025
Another potential beneficiary is the predictions market, which isn’t regulated like gambling.
—Bart Jansen, USA Today, 10 July 2025
The prediction market site Kalshi puts former Fed Governor Kevin Warsh as the slight favorite to score the nomination at 27%, followed by Kevin Hassett, director of the National Economic Council, at 26%, Fed Governor Christopher Waller at 20% and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent at 15%.
—Derek Saul, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025
As prediction machines, large language models trained on massive text datasets can easily produce outputs that seem plausible but are completely inaccurate.
—ArsTechnica, 9 July 2025
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Chris Morris, Fortune, 10 July 2025
Another potential beneficiary is the predictions market, which isn’t regulated like gambling.
—Bart Jansen, USA Today, 10 July 2025
The prediction market site Kalshi puts former Fed Governor Kevin Warsh as the slight favorite to score the nomination at 27%, followed by Kevin Hassett, director of the National Economic Council, at 26%, Fed Governor Christopher Waller at 20% and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent at 15%.
—Derek Saul, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025
As prediction machines, large language models trained on massive text datasets can easily produce outputs that seem plausible but are completely inaccurate.
—ArsTechnica, 9 July 2025
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“Prediction.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prediction. Accessed 14 Jul. 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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