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Recent Examples of predicate
An offense predicated on shooting shot just 6-for-24 from 3-point range.
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Tony Catalina, Austin American Statesman, 22 Mar. 2026
But in a salary-cap, luxury-tax, lottery league, potential expansion does matter, because the success of many who have bypassed the Heat in the playoff race has been predicated on advance planning, living for the future instead of Heat-like living largely in the moment.
—Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 21 Mar. 2026
Accountability, professionalism, and transparency create a leadership presence that is not predicated upon hierarchy and which encourages exploration and ideas.
—Maria Williams, USA Today, 16 Mar. 2026
But to predicate the offense on him leading them in receptions for a fifth straight season, and ninth overall, would be overplaying the hand — a point deftly made by my colleague Sam McDowell a few times over the last year.
—Kansas City Star, 10 Mar. 2026
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Tony Catalina, Austin American Statesman, 22 Mar. 2026
But in a salary-cap, luxury-tax, lottery league, potential expansion does matter, because the success of many who have bypassed the Heat in the playoff race has been predicated on advance planning, living for the future instead of Heat-like living largely in the moment.
—Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 21 Mar. 2026
Accountability, professionalism, and transparency create a leadership presence that is not predicated upon hierarchy and which encourages exploration and ideas.
—Maria Williams, USA Today, 16 Mar. 2026
But to predicate the offense on him leading them in receptions for a fifth straight season, and ninth overall, would be overplaying the hand — a point deftly made by my colleague Sam McDowell a few times over the last year.
—Kansas City Star, 10 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for predicate
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The spikes in volume didn’t indicate whether the trades were buy or sell orders, but based on how prices moved as they were placed other traders quickly deduced that someone was selling oil futures, a bet on the value of the commodity falling, and buying stock futures, a bet on a market rebound.—
John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2026
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Since the ballot seizure, local election officials in Riverside County have debunked the allegations of irregularities by saying that the citizens' group's numbers were based on raw data that could have included unsigned ballots.—
Laurie Perez,
CBS News,
30 Mar. 2026
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“Predicate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/predicate. Accessed 2 Apr. 2026.
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