predictability

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Recent Examples of predictability But healthcare rarely offers such predictability. Rajeev Ronanki, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025 This predictability can be a powerful way to manage the uncertainty and chaos of everyday life. Julie Hinds, Freep.com, 8 Sep. 2025 The three states will essentially be operating common submarines, which will ultimately provide industry with a longer runway and thus the necessary industrial predictability to increase production. Gary Roughead, Foreign Affairs, 2 Sep. 2025 While Google risks losing some search traffic and predictability, analysts say Apple could take a bigger financial hit. Mackenzie Sigalos,kif Leswing, CNBC, 27 Aug. 2025 The problem was the predictability of Fulham’s attack. Sukhman Singh, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for predictability
Noun
  • Determined to make a difference and shake up the monotony of his duties in the City of Angels, Gabriel meddles in the life of Arj (Ansari), a struggling gig worker making ends meet by taking on various gig economy jobs and stocking Home Depot shelves, all while living in his car.
    Jessica Wang, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Mix Cabinet Types Break up the monotony of just uppers and lowers—and achieve a more elevated, designer look—by mixing cabinet types.
    Quincy Bulin, Southern Living, 1 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Only his near contemporary, the American modernist poet Wallace Stevens (who survived into old age), who weirdly enough also was a lawyer for an insurance company, rivals Kafka in terms of the inverse proportion of literary originality and canonical significance to dullness of life story.
    Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Though Brezavscek says anyone noticing dryness or dullness, or looking for a gentle, yet effective product post-treatment—think microneedling, laser, or Botox—can benefit from this serum, those interested in more intensive repair might appreciate the brand’s new 3xGF Serum instead.
    Arden Fanning Andrews, Vogue, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • It’s powered by your own hand—only without the tediousness of using a needle and thread.
    Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • After enduring a stifling sea of sameness in the basic design of the iPhone since the iPhone X, Apple’s new line of iPhone 17s finally brings a very diverse and distinctive breadth of offerings to people looking for an iPhone.
    Bob O’Donnell, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
  • And yet, underneath at their core, the sameness of these two men resonated.
    Natasha Stoynoff, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • When asked to divulge what gave him confidence in Volpe long term, Cashman did not point to any specifics but rather platitudes that have not mounted to much success three years into the shortstop’s career.
    Chris Kirschner, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025
  • These kumbaya platitudes feel out of place when battered and bloody boys are dropping like flies, but that works to the film’s advantage, laying the groundwork for the final rug-pull.
    Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Both determine all observable predictions and are necessary to solve the cosmological horizon and flatness problems.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Yet the general flatness was an extension of Villa’s summer.
    Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2025

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“Predictability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/predictability. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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