How to Use predictive in a Sentence

predictive

adjective

• Think of it like predictive text on your phone.
  — Lutz Finger, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
• The past is not predictive on this one.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 30 Sep. 2025
• Does that spell out anything in the predictive tea leaves?
  — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2026
• These will get stronger and more predictive as the season rolls along.
  — Jake Ciely, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
• These will get stronger and more predictive as the season rolls along.
  — Jake Ciely, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
• The local race is not predictive of what may happen at the polls next year.
  — Adriana Gomez Licon, Fortune, 10 Dec. 2025
• The next phase will be predictive AI.
  — Peter Lyon, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026
• That means their usual predictive streak ends after the last four years.
  — Clayton Davis, Variety, 16 Feb. 2025
• Last year, the agency had its best predictive season on record.
  — Colleen Hagerty, Rolling Stone, 27 July 2025
• The results may not be predictive for all patients.
  — CBS News, 4 Mar. 2026
• Those games aren't always predictive, though.
  — David Troy, FOXNews.com, 19 June 2026
• Sometimes, the predictive stats miss that a young player is changing in front of our eyes.
  — Eno Sarris, New York Times, 9 June 2026
• The figures are based on a predictive model.
  — Will Clark, NBC news, 26 June 2026
• The idea lacks predictive power, Sleegers said.
  — Shayla Love, New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2025
• The machine now thinks in structured, predictive ways.
  — Big Think, 2 Mar. 2026
• Putting is less predictive at Muirfield, and that's been the weakest club in his bag this year.
  — Geoff Clark Outkick, FOXNews.com, 3 June 2026
• The finish to a season is scarcely more predictive than the start of the season.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2025
• This moves the cloud from being elastic to being predictive.
  — Preston Fore, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2025
• The yield curve has predictive power that other markets don’t.
  — New York Times, 21 July 2022
• Markets and investors decide these and then tend to be more careful and predictive than stocks.
  — Erik Sherman, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
• The problem is that weak ties go down the tubes, and those are the most predictive thing for innovation.
  — Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2023
• Just like in a string of predictive text, what happens next follows from what happened before.
  — Sarah Lewin Frasier, Scientific American, 25 Sep. 2024
• Body mass has proven to be more predictive of WR production than height.
  — Michael Salfino, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026
• This is the highest predictive total for the weekend.
  — Gladys Louise Tyler, Forbes.com, 7 Jan. 2026
• Polls six months, five months, even closer to the election have zero predictive value.
  — Elizabeth Beyer, USA TODAY, 8 May 2024
• Today, the predictive power of that question has flipped.
  — Ben Smith, semafor.com, 13 Apr. 2026
• Both studies used predictive language models to help guess words in sentences.
  — Pam Belluck, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2023
• The game is set five years in the future, and imagines a Britain where predictive policing has halved crime rates.
  — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 12 Aug. 2025
• That data is unprompted and far more predictive than any survey.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
• Jordan says this test is a better predictive marker for heart disease than a lipid panel alone.
  — Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 14 July 2026