predicating

present participle of predicate
as in basing
to find a basis she has predicated her theory on recent findings by other astronomers

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Recent Examples of predicating With everyone predicating their behavior on everyone else’s, norms shift rapidly, and complicated feedback effects ensue. Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for predicating
basing
Verb
  • According to the Payscale report, 63% of employers saw an increase in employees basing their salary requests on inaccurate or unverified data this year.
    Sophie Caldwell, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2025
  • One is that basing a new party on a single foreign-policy issue is a mistake—whether the Iraq War in 2004 or Palestine now.
    Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2025

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“Predicating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/predicating. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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