as in to read
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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Bills stunned by Patriots Few would have predicted that the New England Patriots would be the team to snap the Bills’ unbeaten start this season, but that’s exactly what happened at Highmark Stadium on Sunday.
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Ben Church, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2025
What separates good from great Three habits predict satisfaction more than any headline claim.
—Maria Williams, USA Today, 6 Oct. 2025
Taking the Jaguars is Pete Prisco, who predicts a 23-21 final.
—Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 6 Oct. 2025
Explosive Computations Physicists want to predict what will happen when fundamental particles interact.
—Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 6 Oct. 2025
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Ben Church, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2025
What separates good from great Three habits predict satisfaction more than any headline claim.
—Maria Williams, USA Today, 6 Oct. 2025
Taking the Jaguars is Pete Prisco, who predicts a 23-21 final.
—Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 6 Oct. 2025
Explosive Computations Physicists want to predict what will happen when fundamental particles interact.
—Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 6 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for predict
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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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With more accurate, timely, and localized weather predictions, companies can better anticipate disruptions, allocate necessary resources, and mitigate risks to supply chains.—
Beatrice Nolan,
Fortune,
3 Oct. 2025
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AccuWeather Lead Hurricane Expert Alex DaSilva told Newsweek that AccuWeather anticipates hurricane season to ramp up during its last two months, after a lull in activity over the summer.—
Anna Skinner,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 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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However, economists caution, the better-than-expected reading could be a sign of a slowing economy and that shrinking businesses’ margins could foretell higher prices for consumers in the near future.—
Alicia Wallace,
CNN Money,
10 Sep. 2025
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Any development is forecasted to be slow and will occur as the area moves towards the northwest.—
Julia Gomez,
USA Today,
3 Oct. 2025
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The external factors of the crisis Since 2020, Cuba’s gross domestic product has shrunk by almost 11%, with economists forecasting a further decline of 1%-2% in 2025.—
Joseph J. Gonzalez,
The Conversation,
3 Oct. 2025
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On Sunday, Moody’s Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi warned there was essentially no job growth in September, citing data from Revelio Labs and ADP.—
Danny Bakst,
Fortune,
6 Oct. 2025
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Gaza is decimated In Gaza, the Hamas-run health ministry says more than 66,000 people have been killed − about half of them women and children − and humanitarian agencies now warn of famine.—
Susan Page,
USA Today,
5 Oct. 2025
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In the midst of the chaos, Bleacher Report's Grant Hughes has offered a brutal prediction as far as Tatum is concerned, prognosticating that the C's will never again win another title with the Duke product as their top option.—
Matthew Schmidt,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Aug. 2025
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Bank of America Securities analyst Robert Ohmes just downgraded Target from hold to sell, prognosticating another 10-15% share drop.—
Noah Barsky,
Forbes.com,
20 Aug. 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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Local officials held a ribbon-cutting ceremony this morning at Philadelphia’s Calder Gardens, the new sanctuary honoring pathbreaking sculptor Alexander Calder, presaging its opening to the public, which is set for September 21.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
15 Sep. 2025
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Two years after the Golden State Valkyries paid $50 million as a league expansion fee, the three franchises set to enter into the league in 2028, 2029 and 2030 were announced with a corresponding $250 million expansion fee.—
Ben Pickman,
New York Times,
4 Oct. 2025
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In late May, Ludwinski, who opened the pie shop in 2015 on Kercheval in Detroit’s West Village, announced a temporary closure that started June 8.—
Susan Selasky,
Freep.com,
4 Oct. 2025
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