predicted; predicting; predicts
: to declare or indicate in advance
especially
: foretell on the basis of observation, experience, or scientific reason
: to make a prediction
Examples of predict in a Sentence
All the local forecasters are predicting rain for this afternoon.
She claims that she can predict future events.
It's hard to predict how the election will turn out.
Many people predicted that the store would fail, but it has done very well.
Sales are predicted to be the same as last year.
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Over-fitting forces the model to be specialized to the low amount of data and thus cannot predict accurately.
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Vipin Bharathan, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
Oregon, Virginia, Nevada and Louisiana are among the states predicted by the KFF to experience the biggest drop in Medicaid enrolment should the cuts happen, as the map above shows.
—Matt Robison, Newsweek, 25 Feb. 2025
Minimizing that risk sometimes allowed U.S. adversaries to predict and even dictate the tempo of these interactions.
—Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
The chromosomes one has do not always predict one’s gonads or one’s genitals or even all the elements of one’s reproductive tract.
—Agustín Fuentes, Scientific American, 25 Feb. 2025
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Vipin Bharathan, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
Oregon, Virginia, Nevada and Louisiana are among the states predicted by the KFF to experience the biggest drop in Medicaid enrolment should the cuts happen, as the map above shows.
—Matt Robison, Newsweek, 25 Feb. 2025
Minimizing that risk sometimes allowed U.S. adversaries to predict and even dictate the tempo of these interactions.
—Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
The chromosomes one has do not always predict one’s gonads or one’s genitals or even all the elements of one’s reproductive tract.
—Agustín Fuentes, Scientific American, 25 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for predict
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“Predict.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/predict. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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predict
verb
pre·dict
pri-ˈdikt 
: to declare in advance : foretell on the basis of observation, experience, or reasoning
predictably
adverb
-blē
Etymology
from Latin praedictus, past participle of praedicere "to predict, tell ahead of time," from prae- "pre-, earlier than, before" and dicere "to say" — related to dictate
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