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We all know how difficult it can be to predict long-term winners in the stock market, and at this stage of the AI build-out, it might be foolhardy to do so.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
But the further out you try to predict the future, the greater the uncertainties become.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
The Legislative Analyst’s Office said the exact amount is tough to predict, but the state probably would collect tens of billions of dollars.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
To understand what might have prevented dinosaurs from becoming smaller, the researchers turned to mathematical models designed to predict how natural selection influences body size.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026
Those are your abilities to predict, to decide, and to interact socially.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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With unseasonably warm weather and the start of an El Niño cycle, Cal State Long Beach Shark Lab Director Chris Lowe predicts this sighting is just the start of a ‘very sharky summer.’
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
The most likely categories to use mascots are food, insurance, grocery and retail, according to System1, a firm that predicts how ads will perform.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
It explains the Cosmic Microwave Background -- the faint radiation left over from the early Universe -- and accurately predicts how galaxies are distributed across vast cosmic distances.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
Once the big AI platforms start facing pressure from shareholders to show a profit, he predicts: "They will start clamping down."
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
However, as we have seen, classical general relativity predicts its own downfall.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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On July 16, James predicted that PBF Energy and Sunoco L.P., two energy companies, would see short-term runs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
But he predicted a backlash against Burnham from traditional media annoyed at being "frozen out".
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
This is considerably higher than the more ambitious forecasts out there, like Bank of America’s $1.2 trillion, predicted by analyst Vivek Arya.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
He predicted that company sizes may shrink during this transition from industrial giants to tech companies, as small teams of people powered by personal AI agents will be able to run companies at significant scale.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
He predicted GPS navigation devices for cars before anybody else, too.
From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein
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And these markets have been pretty good at predicting elections in the past.
From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2026
She lost her sight in a childhood illness before the Korean War and by 11 was studying Korean fortune-telling -- predicting subjects' futures based on their birth dates and times.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
Since it was predicting something that hadn’t happened yet, they didn’t have a basis for trusting it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
The weather service is predicting elevated to briefly critical fire weather conditions in the interior valleys, mountains and deserts through Saturday due to hot, dry and breezy conditions, including long periods of single-digit humidity levels.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
I have no business plotting or predicting anything for this girl.
From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak
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The Language of Standardized Tests, List 1
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