How to Use predicate in a Sentence

predicate

1 of 3 noun

• Windley was sentenced as a predicate felon.
  — John Annese, New York Daily News, 16 Mar. 2026
• The number of the verb depends on the subject, not the predicate (what comes after the verb).
  — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Aug. 2021
• What is the predicate for his actions in releasing this statement?
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 18 June 2017
• Xie’s swallowed commands, shorn of their predicates, suggest that the rules of her art cannot be codified.
  — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2018
• But whether these are real arrests, and, no, there's no predicate for an emergency or a crisis in the city.
  — NBC news, 17 Aug. 2025
• Thus, there is no predicate of criminal behavior necessary to begin such a review.
  — Murray Waas, Vox, 9 Nov. 2018
• The predicate to this question is that these two books are devoid of any expressions of hatred or desire for revenge against the Germans.
  — Walt Shelton, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
• Garrett ruled that stalking is not a crime of violence and, therefore, not a predicate to make the killing of Thompson a capital crime.
  — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 9 June 2026
• To convict, jurors would have needed to find Combs and at least one other person committed at least two predicate acts within a ten-year window.
  — Dakin Andone, CNN Money, 2 July 2025
• There was a predicate for all of the things, a basis for the investigations, the moves that the Justice Department did.
  — NBC news, 10 Aug. 2025
• This represents a pretty aggressive vision to move the pool of predicates in the direction of new performance standards.
  — Thomas M. Burton, WSJ, 26 Nov. 2018
• International law requires a credible threat as a predicate for a strike and has measures against hitting civilian targets.
  — Ron Kampeas, sun-sentinel.com, 1 Dec. 2020
• Right or wrong, perhaps the Israeli government perceived Tlaib’s predicate for the visit as the ultimate fig leaf.
  — Fox News, 17 Aug. 2019
• Blakey also erred in instructing the jury on the Travel Act by including as predicates state offenses that do not require a quid pro quo.
  — Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune, 9 Apr. 2026
• Each of these arguments ignores its own racist predicate — the presumption that Black people are too dumb to understand which party favors their best interests.
  — Kyle Whitmire, al, 24 June 2020
• The predicate for installing metal detectors at each entrance of the House floor is false, Republican lawmakers say.
  — Kerry Picket, Washington Examiner, 1 Mar. 2021
• Johnson’s task was to prepare the jury to interpret, for example, the use of a company card to buy baby oil, or a flight for an escort, as the predicate offense warranting life in prison.
  — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 3 July 2025
• More than 200 federal crimes can be legal predicates for money laundering Byrne added in a Monday interview.
  — USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2017
• Human capital is the single most important predicate to emergence from the middle-income ghetto in which countries like Mexico wallow.
  — Anne Stevenson-Yang, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2021
• The cheerleaders’ legal claims The factual assertions detailed above serve as predicates for the specific legal claims levied against the Texans.
  — Michael McCann, SI.com, 25 June 2018
• The predicate is alarm about a shortage of semiconductors, but the point would also be to invest in areas such as quantum computing, biomedical medical research, and data storage.
  — William A. Galston, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2021
• The resulting documents revealed that there was no proper predicate for investigating Flynn.
  — The Editors, National Review, 15 Dec. 2020
• Contrary to Miller’s predicate, deportable immigrants do not advertise their deportability.
  — Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 31 July 2025
• But the predicate for Trump policy is that strategic patience, the policy of the Obama administration, your administration, failed, so something else has to be tried.
  — WSJ, 22 May 2017
• Geddes also broke down each of the 14 racketeering predicate acts that were alleged in the indictment as well as the elements prosecutors had to prove beyond a reasonable doubt to secure a conviction.
  — Tribune Media Services, al, 26 Sep. 2021
• Prosecutors during the trial aimed to demonstrate a pattern of racketeering or two or more RICO predicate acts that occurred over 10 years.
  — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2025
• This was the predicate for his recusal from the Intelligence Committee’s Russia investigation.
  — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2018
• Those officials, which include deputy chief of staff James Blair and budget chief Russell Vought, have sidestepped questions about whether their probe of the costs is intended as a predicate for firing Powell.
  — Brett Samuels, The Hill, 22 July 2025
• For medical algorithms, the definition of equivalency under 510(k) should be narrowed to consider whether the data sets or machine learning tactics used by the new device and its predicate are similar.
  — Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2021
• Paresh Patel, an expert on the federal stalking statute who Mangione has added to his legal team, is expected to argue that stalking is not a crime of violence and, therefore, an improper predicate to making the case death penalty eligible.
  — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 9 Jan. 2026

predicate

2 of 3 verb

• It was all predicated on chops that were second to none.
  — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026
• But that new is, at times, predicated on what came before.
  — Literary Hub, 23 Apr. 2026
• That is predicated on doing more on game night than just showing up on time.
  — Kent Somers, azcentral, 22 Nov. 2019
• The whole game will be predicated on those two points, as will my handicap.
  — Tanner McGrath, Chicago Tribune, 25 Mar. 2023
• Trump’s campaign was predicated on the idea that crime was out of control.
  — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2017
• All of your choices are predicated on his promises to change.
  — Amy Dickinson, BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2018
• All of your choices are predicated on his promises to change.
  — Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 27 June 2018
• Some of this is also predicated on some of the other risks that lurk too, that are maybe less in our control.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 17 June 2023
• All these missions are predicated on the big booster getting back on track.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 10 Jan. 2020
• But that was predicated on the growing mass of the region’s middle class.
  — The Economist, 24 Aug. 2019
• The treaty itself was predicated on Germany’s guilt for the war.
  — National Geographic, 31 May 2019
• The state budget is predicated on a slight increase in revenue.
  — James Salzer, ajc, 6 May 2020
• And the success is predicated on Moore, who turns 28 next month.
  — Paul Doyle, courant.com, 22 May 2017
• Again, that’s predicated on a stronger system taking a more westward track.
  — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2023
• Our offense has to be predicated on some of the aggressiveness on the bases.
  — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 20 May 2026
• Hate crimes, which are predicated on the state of mind of the aggressor, are challenging to prove in court.
  — Rozina Ali, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2024
• And these deals are predicated on rebates, which are generally tied to list prices.
  — Ed Silverman, STAT, 9 July 2018
• Their halfcourt offense has been predicated on spacing the floor and using drive-and-kicks.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland.com, 28 Oct. 2017
• From the start, Uber’s business was predicated on breaking rules.
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2018
• Scott shifts from a beat predicated on brooding strings into a grander production, then makes one more thrilling beat switch.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 7 Nov. 2023
• The lease payments will be predicated on a percentage of the gross rents over 60 years.
  — The San Diego Union-Tribune Staff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 2024
• That’s the thing about this whole project, it’s entirely predicated on whether people want to hear this music live.
  — Blair R. Fischer, Chicago Tribune, 9 Mar. 2026
• This whole thing’s predicated on not being outside of your body, outside of yourself.
  — Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 12 Sep. 2019
• Of course, this was all predicated on the Dolphins taking care of business.
  — Adam H. Beasley, miamiherald, 24 Dec. 2017
• Stephens' game is predicated in large part on her speed and an ability to track down opponents' shots, over and over and over again.
  — Howard Fendrich, courant.com, 8 Sep. 2017
• And [the business model is] not predicated off of that anyway, because the name of the game is subscribers.
  — Time, 20 July 2023
• But at the end of the day, it is predicated off physicality and finish.
  — Dan Wiederer, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
• Both movies are predicated on passing off a lie to preserve the Christmas spirit.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 6 Dec. 2019
• Carr’s game is predicated on throwing quickly and accurately to add up small chunks of yards in a big scoring drive.
  — Ryan O’Halloran, The Denver Post, 10 Sep. 2019
• Both sides say the deal is predicated on their agreement being codified into a bill within the next week.
  — Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2026

predicate

3 of 3 adjective

• In “the sun is hot,” “hot” is a predicate adjective.
• The predicate felony in Chauvin's case is third-degree assault.
  — NBC News, 3 June 2020
• The next rooms contained stacks of documents and books, along with predicate-logic equations scrawled on the walls.
  — Nimrod Nir, Newsweek, 14 Feb. 2018
• So that predicate for the Mueller investigation is now very weak.
  — Fox News, 17 June 2018
• Right now, however, the larger goal simply has to be about establishing the predicate right to receive royalties.
  — Eriq Gardner, Billboard, 4 Apr. 2019
• But, unlike that of most other states, Minnesota law allows prosecutors to charge felony murder using assault as the predicate crime.
  — Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 17 June 2020
• Victims often dismiss other abusive tactics, such as a husband forbidding his wife from seeing her family or friends, that predicate any physical violence.
  — Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News, 9 Feb. 2018
• Traditionally, the predicate felonies for felony murder included rape, arson, mayhem, robbery, burglary, larceny, prison breach and rescue of a felon.
  — NBC News, 3 June 2020
• Remington Arms had hoped the Supreme Court would review the decision, arguing that the exception only applies when the predicate statute explicitly mentions guns and gunmakers.
  — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 12 Nov. 2019
• On the substance of the state law claims, WME argues that the unfair competition claim fails because of the defects in the predicate fiduciary duty, constructive fraud and anti-kickback claims and, once again, because the allegations are too vague.
  — Jonathan Handel, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Oct. 2019