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to tell of or describe beforehand
I can't even begin to predict what housing prices will be like 30 years from now
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Recent Examples of predicted
Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 10 Oct. 2025
The results indicate that global trade with Africa has been more resilient than economists had predicted following the imposition of US tariffs, with the continent’s largest international exporter — South Africa — still facing 30% tariffs on exports to the US.
—Paige Bruton, semafor.com, 10 Oct. 2025
Gravitational lensing was first predicted by Albert Einstein in his theory of general relativity.
—Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 10 Oct. 2025
Everything else must be simulated and/or modeled and/or theoretically predicted, and that comes along with enormous uncertainties.
—Big Think, 10 Oct. 2025
To avoid the logistical logjams that had been predicted, the rollout is being staggered.
—Julia Buckley, CNN Money, 10 Oct. 2025
That’s a far steeper decline than the 3% drop the major ratings agency had predicted in May.
—Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2025
The New York Jets are the worst team in the NFL through five weeks, though they're predicted to address its losing ways by installing a breakout quarterback in place of Justin Fields next season.
—Max Dible, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
Jerry was struggling to organize into a hurricane as forecasters previously predicted might happen toward the end of the week.
—Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 10 Oct. 2025
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These future tests could help uncover space-time fluctuations predicted by some quantum gravity models and shed light on the interplay between dark matter, vacuum energy, and gravitational fields.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 10 Oct. 2025
The results indicate that global trade with Africa has been more resilient than economists had predicted following the imposition of US tariffs, with the continent’s largest international exporter — South Africa — still facing 30% tariffs on exports to the US.
—Paige Bruton, semafor.com, 10 Oct. 2025
Gravitational lensing was first predicted by Albert Einstein in his theory of general relativity.
—Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 10 Oct. 2025
Everything else must be simulated and/or modeled and/or theoretically predicted, and that comes along with enormous uncertainties.
—Big Think, 10 Oct. 2025
To avoid the logistical logjams that had been predicted, the rollout is being staggered.
—Julia Buckley, CNN Money, 10 Oct. 2025
That’s a far steeper decline than the 3% drop the major ratings agency had predicted in May.
—Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2025
The New York Jets are the worst team in the NFL through five weeks, though they're predicted to address its losing ways by installing a breakout quarterback in place of Justin Fields next season.
—Max Dible, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
Jerry was struggling to organize into a hurricane as forecasters previously predicted might happen toward the end of the week.
—Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 10 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for predicted
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The brand said in April 2021 that encrypted password information was also included within the leak, but the encryption keys to read those passwords weren’t accessed.—
James Peckham,
PC Magazine,
6 Oct. 2025
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Banned Books Week is a movement that celebrates the freedom to read, while drawing attention to censorship of literature in libraries, schools and bookstores.—
Greta Cross,
USA Today,
5 Oct. 2025
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This week, Luke Combs is feeling wistful, Leon Thomas is feeling vindictive, and of course, the most anticipated pop release of the entire year is finally upon us.—
Andrew Unterberger,
Billboard,
3 Oct. 2025
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The anticipated transitional season?—
Phil Hay,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
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Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s legal bill for her high-stakes congressional hearing on sanctuary cities last March has increased by $100,000, to bring the city’s total expected spending on the matter to a whopping $750,000.—
Gayla Cawley,
Boston Herald,
24 Sep. 2025
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The song could be included in an expected Aaliyah album.—
Trevor Anderson,
Billboard,
23 Sep. 2025
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John Hollinger forecasts how the bottom of the Western Conference will play out.—
Zach Harper,
New York Times,
10 Oct. 2025
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The system’s center is forecast to remain offshore of the Baja California Sur coast, dissipating by Saturday, according to the agency.—
Joe Edwards,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Oct. 2025
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Philosophers once prophesied that evolution would lead to minds far greater — and stranger — than our own.—
Thomas Moynihan,
Big Think,
20 Aug. 2025
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Todd's second-ever screen role foretold his future prominence, as the taciturn Sgt.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
16 Sep. 2025
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One of Redford’s last screen roles, which presaged his retirement from acting in 2018, was as the career criminal Forrest Tucker in David Lowery’s The Old Man & the Gun.—
K. Austin Collins,
The Atlantic,
16 Sep. 2025
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Her attraction to coloring books presaged her minimal style.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
8 Sep. 2025
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That was just one of the findings of a new statewide health survey -- just the second in the country -- that was announced Thursday by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.—
Daniel McFadin,
Arkansas Online,
6 Oct. 2025
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The 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature will be announced next week, on Thursday, October 9.—
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6 Oct. 2025
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