VATICINATES Synonyms: 33 Similar and Opposite Words

vaticinates

verb

present tense third-person singular of vaticinate

as in predicts

to tell of or describe beforehand if he could really vaticinate the course of the stock market, he'd be rich enough to own Manhattan

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The methodology predicts how soil conditions interact with structural foundations during an earthquake.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2026
The lonely runner conjecture predicts that, at some point, a runner will be maximally distant from all the other runners—the saddest, loneliest phase of the race.

— Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 2 Oct. 2026

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