predication

Example Sentences

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There is adequate predication for the Treasury Department, the FEC and the Department of Justice to take a look.

From Salon • Jun. 6, 2022

“The investigation was opened with appropriate predication and authorization.”

From Washington Post • Jun. 1, 2022

He scoured the F.B.I. guidelines to find the rules against investigating someone based on false predication, presenting his supervisors with copious examples of claims that didn’t add up.

From New York Times • Sep. 1, 2021

“Notwithstanding whether there was sufficient predication for the leak investigation itself, including family members and minor children strikes me as extremely aggressive,” said David Laufman, a former Justice Department official who worked on leak investigations.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 10, 2021

They are not grammatical in the sense of being concerned with the function of words in predication.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William