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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  1. predicts
  2. reads
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  • The future of Miami-Dade’s largest voter bloc Nordlund predicts that lots of voters this cycle, and potentially going forward, may be more driven by issues or particular candidates than party loyalty.
    — Verónica Egui Brito, Miami Herald, 30 Oct. 2026
  • The conjecture predicts that for the curve xa = yb, a count of the matrix solutions will always collapse into a Rogers-Ramanujan-type identity.
    — Lyndie Chiou, Scientific American, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of predicts
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  • Baldacci no longer serves as a judge for the award but stays involved and always reads the winning books.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 1 Nov. 2026
  • Rank your processes by how often a person opens a document, reads it and makes a judgment call, then take the one at the top.
    — Billy Biggs, Forbes.com, 30 Oct. 2026
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