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predict

[pri-dikt] / prɪˈdɪkt /


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Grip strength can also help predict who may develop frailty, which is a large risk for falling down and having difficulties with everyday activities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Should primary schools predict who will become 'Neet' at 16?

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Opponents of ditching testing requirements argued that the exams are a key tool to uniformly predict academic success from students of divergent backgrounds, as well as schools that may issue grades differently.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

The company is focused on world models, or those that can predict physical, real-word dynamics the way large language models predict text.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

“There’s really no good way to predict what will happen. No way,” Don Mullineaux told reporters.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone

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

Bookmark this: Elon Musk predicts AI will roughly double U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

"The number one trend for this season is messy girl," says Elektra Kotsoni, deputy director for Vogue Business and Vogue Runway, whose team predicts the trends ahead of each season.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

It will continue to work, he predicts, because someday Bitcoin will be $10 million apiece.

From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026

This year he predicts our lives will twist inside out.

From "Inside Out and Back Again" by Thanhha Lai

Before JWST, researchers could not directly observe molecular hydrogen, but the team predicted that molecular winds should exist and could be dense enough during the earliest stages to block X-ray photons.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

Guides predicted that untrained drivers would crowd or otherwise harass animals, or play down the importance of the wildlife expertise guides had built over years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

United Nations experts have predicted an exceptionally strong cycle of the El Nino climate phenomenon, which causes global changes in winds and rainfall as well as erratic weather conditions.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

A nurse who had been on shift on the night Ethel was found told the police that Norris had predicted the 86-year-old might not last the night.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

It wasn’t easy; as Ekon had predicted, everyone was pushing forward.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

That realisation helped him stay "stable and disciplined in prison", but also gave him a unique way of predicting what might happen next - and one guess was a prisoner swap.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

As the AI analyst and podcaster Tom Reed quips: “Even a 100% success rate at predicting the tokens of a Robert Caro biography doesn’t generalize to becoming POTUS.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 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

Within the canon of adult animation,“The Simpsons” gets most of the credit for predicting the future, but “South Park” has at least one unnervingly good entry in the category.

From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026

In other words, how good is Mary at predicting what she likes in a man?

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell




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