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Recent Examples of predictable
Yet all have been probabilistic — and thus predictable.
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Big Think, 3 Nov. 2025
Aside from that, the playmaking has been largely predictable, devoid of the type of creative wrinkles needed to flummox opposing defenses.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 3 Nov. 2025
Using floppy modes—motions requiring almost no resistance—can guide predictable deformations, allowing materials to perform computations efficiently.
—Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 2 Nov. 2025
Paying cash can sometimes save money on smaller, predictable expenses — like an X-ray, or a routine lab test — but health insurance is meant to protect against unexpected, high-cost emergencies.
—Berkeley Lovelace Jr, NBC news, 31 Oct. 2025
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Big Think, 3 Nov. 2025
Aside from that, the playmaking has been largely predictable, devoid of the type of creative wrinkles needed to flummox opposing defenses.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 3 Nov. 2025
Using floppy modes—motions requiring almost no resistance—can guide predictable deformations, allowing materials to perform computations efficiently.
—Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 2 Nov. 2025
Paying cash can sometimes save money on smaller, predictable expenses — like an X-ray, or a routine lab test — but health insurance is meant to protect against unexpected, high-cost emergencies.
—Berkeley Lovelace Jr, NBC news, 31 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for predictable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for predictable
Adjective
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His expected preliminary hearing, in which the defense would challenge the evidence used to arrest him and cross-examine the state's witnesses, has been postponed until January at the earliest.—
Michael Ruiz,
FOXNews.com,
30 Oct. 2025
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An expected dip in mortgage rates isn't likely enough to help house hunters much, analysts said.—
Medora Lee,
USA Today,
30 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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With spoofing tools, criminals can mimic real bank phone numbers and even use AI to reproduce familiar voices.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
6 Nov. 2025
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The common ingredients are incredible storytellers who are excited about trying to make a series that feels authentic and realistic, and maybe feels familiar, but in a way that also feels elevated and sophisticated.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
6 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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During his routine pre-game session with reporters Friday, Spoelstra brought his sons Santiago and Dante and his daughter Ruby to the dais and expressed relief that nobody was injured in the blaze.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
8 Nov. 2025
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That was in comparison with people who took a placebo along with their routine cholesterol-lowering medications.—
Jacqueline Howard,
CNN Money,
8 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Bennett has faced several charges in recent years, including communicating threats, domestic violence, and habitual larceny.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
7 Nov. 2025
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But the world had ended up there by passing through an unbroken series of decisions not to cut emissions and to do something else instead; and this practice had become so habitual and systemic as to threaten to determine the next phase too.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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An otherwise unremarkable bank account belonging to a local Realtor suddenly began transferring cash to and from locations across the globe, including to Russia’s Sberbank.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
7 Nov. 2025
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His existence as an unremarkable man is overturned, and as things spiral violently out of control, he is forced to flee and change his life completely in a movie that rides the new wave of French horror.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
31 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Rake and trail figures are an unexceptional 24.5 degrees and 100 mm, with a wheelbase of 56.5 inches (1,435 mm).—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
7 Oct. 2025
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The monologue that led to Kimmel’s involuntary hiatus was thoroughly unexceptional for the show.—
Inkoo Kang,
New Yorker,
19 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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That shot-on-film aspect lends to the film feeling like a throwback to classic coming-of-age movies, but with a chilling twist.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
10 Nov. 2025
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But of course, for space nerds like us, lots of old, classic factions and debates pop out of this new framework.—
Lee Billings,
Scientific American,
10 Nov. 2025
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“Predictable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/predictable. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.
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