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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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Josh Katzowitz, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
And the early prediction is that the Patriots bank on getting more out of Polk than Bourne, who will turn 30 during training camp.
—Chad Graff, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
Like the gyrations in the stock market, economists have gone back and forth on recession predictions.
—Catherine Arnst, Quartz, 29 Apr. 2025
For sports fans, Cari Champion hosted an in-person taping of Naked Sports with Iman Shumpert, where the two debated everything from LeBron vs. Jordan to championship predictions.
—Okla Jones, Essence, 29 Apr. 2025
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Josh Katzowitz, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
And the early prediction is that the Patriots bank on getting more out of Polk than Bourne, who will turn 30 during training camp.
—Chad Graff, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
Like the gyrations in the stock market, economists have gone back and forth on recession predictions.
—Catherine Arnst, Quartz, 29 Apr. 2025
For sports fans, Cari Champion hosted an in-person taping of Naked Sports with Iman Shumpert, where the two debated everything from LeBron vs. Jordan to championship predictions.
—Okla Jones, Essence, 29 Apr. 2025
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“Prediction.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prediction. Accessed 5 May. 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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