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Which ancient practice tried to predict the future by studying the behavior of birds?

predict

[pri-dikt] / prɪˈdɪkt /


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These tools can help commanders by automatically identifying enemy vehicles from drone feeds or tracking ammunition expenditure to predict resupply needs, Matthaidess said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

New tools that count and analyse fruit on the tree or vine, and predict when crops will ripen, are emerging.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

It was hard to predict how the center fielder would look at the plate when he returned from a fracture in his left hand.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2026

Yet Wall Street economists predict a much smaller 84,000 increase in new jobs in the September employment report that comes out on Friday.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

Yet, although Venus is sometimes brighter and sometimes less bright in the sky, it was difficult to see the variation that either theory must predict.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

However, the forecast predicts that AI investment will begin to produce job gains next year and in 2028, even as the cuts have depressed California’s jobs picture.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

"We then tuned to the tricritical point and measured the lowest levels of its distinct spectrum, which came out in the different ratios theory predicts."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

A report published Monday by RBC Capital Markets predicts a 5% to 10% “garden variety” pullback in the S&P 500 over the coming weeks or months.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

Now an AI platform called AlphaFold predicts it in hours.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Vincent predicts to Theo that in a year he’ll be making drawings and watercolors that are salable, and not just to a friend or relative.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

Few could have predicted the club would win its final seven games.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

Social posts predicted “the beginning of the end,” along with smaller portions and worse food.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

Cox even predicted that Ford would soon drop to fourth place, but Hyundai-Kia's sales did not advance as much as estimated, so Ford remained in the number three spot.

From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026

The Atlantic hurricane season was predicted to be quieter than normal as a result of this.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

The rain stopped, exactly as predicted, and ushers ran outside and pulled plastic covers off four hundred chairs on the lawn.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin

Two former mathletes run one of the biggest, and maybe the least-known, trading firms in Wall Street’s hottest market: predicting the future.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

"I hear, here and there, the prophets of doom predicting the worst," said Finance Minister Roland Lescure regarding France's ability to service its debt.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

Some are predicting that a wet El Niño could bring back long-dry Tulare Lake, which reappeared atop thousands of acres of farmland in 2023.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026

Faux, who has been covering the currency much longer than I have, told me he has “given up predicting what’s going to happen to Bitcoin’s price.”

From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026

The third tsunami warning, predicting a 32-foot wave, arrived too late.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland




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