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Recent Examples of predicate
Punxsutawney Phil, the country's leading animal meteorologist, may have predicated a long winter.
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Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
Mineral extraction sites are geologically determined and any policies that set targets for domestic production need to be predicated in geoscience.
—Saleem H. Ali, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
Maxwell’s conviction was, after all, predicated on the existence of these men, as the jury at her trial heard and believed following testimony from victims.
—The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 10 July 2025
Now it’s predicated purely on compatibility, and that can very easily devolve into an algorithm as opposed to matters of the heart.
—Carlos Aguilar, Rolling Stone, 13 June 2025
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Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
Mineral extraction sites are geologically determined and any policies that set targets for domestic production need to be predicated in geoscience.
—Saleem H. Ali, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
Maxwell’s conviction was, after all, predicated on the existence of these men, as the jury at her trial heard and believed following testimony from victims.
—The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 10 July 2025
Now it’s predicated purely on compatibility, and that can very easily devolve into an algorithm as opposed to matters of the heart.
—Carlos Aguilar, Rolling Stone, 13 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for predicate
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Scientific American profiles a branch of mathematics that is based on the idea that infinity is impossible, since the universe itself is finite.—
Alex Knapp,
Forbes.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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The new film is based on the musical by Terrence McNally, John Kander and Frank Ebb, which in turn was inspired by the 1976 novel by Manuel Puig.—
Daniel S. Levine,
People.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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“Predicate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/predicate. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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