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The researchers say more work is needed to predict how different species will respond in different environments.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
"The war is ongoing and I certainly cannot predict when it might get resolved," he said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
It’s hard to predict whether external pressures — such as the war in Iran — will be contained or if they will have an impact on wages and home prices.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
The escalation has already led analysts to predict that inflation will rise in the coming months and that interest rate cuts are unlikely anytime soon.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
“A fancy fortune-teller with a bunch of college degrees. He uses science and computers to predict the future. He can tell you what’s going to happen in ten, twenty years.”
From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein
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The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy said it expected the dangerous conditions to continue through Friday, and that "our best model for smoke only predicts out to 48 hours."
From Barron's ● Jul. 16, 2026
“Our mistakes will again be forgotten,” Odysseus predicts as the land he loves sails into the Dark Ages while he steers the helm.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
Goldman Sachs predicts that by 2030, nearly 63,000 commercial robotaxis will be on U.S. roads.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Should the current trends continue, UN-Habitat predicts more than half of Kenya's population will be living in towns or cities by 2050.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
Yet it predicts the motions of the sun, the moon, and the planets to a high degree of accuracy.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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The figure below illustrates how the model’s predicted transitions to out-of-work change for workers in six jobs ranging from low to high in AI exposure.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026
The group, one of the world's biggest chemical companies and a key supplier to industries ranging from agriculture to automotive, had previously predicted a range of 6.2 to 7.0 billion euros.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
He says he decided to lock in the cheaper price at the start of the conflict because he predicted the war would cause prices to rise.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
At Goldman, Solomon said that the AI investment cycle would inevitably have bumps in the road, including potential market resets, but predicted those hiccups would be temporary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
My personal effects in tow, the three of us walk next door where Theo has, as I’d hoped and predicted, left his door unlocked.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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But when it comes to predicting cliff collapses along California’s iconic shoreline, the science has been infamously tricky to pin down.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
More of England and Wales will experience highs around the 30C mark, with some weather models predicting isolated peaks of 34 or 35C.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
Later, physicist Yakov Zel'dovich expanded on this concept, predicting that waves interacting with an object rotating fast enough could also gain energy and become amplified.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 12, 2026
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has a history of predicting that AI will create new jobs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
In fact, she wrote a song for each of us kids with lyrics predicting a happy fate.
From "How Dare the Sun Rise" by Sandra Uwiringiyimana
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The Language of Standardized Tests, List 1
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