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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
The future of the competition is impossible to predict.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
For stars with metallicity below about 10% of the sun's, wind speeds dropped much more sharply than trends measured at higher metallicities would predict.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
He believes that dreams predict the future, if we know how to interpret them.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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Now an AI platform called AlphaFold predicts it in hours.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
If that happens, he predicts the stock could rally between 10% and 20%.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 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
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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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
Evan Hubinger, the Anthropic researcher who recently predicted a more than 10% chance of extinction from AI within the next decade, was listed as co-lead for a discussion on AI safety.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
He predicted that Raman, if elected, would follow Sosnick’s lead and install bike lanes that “very few people will use.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
In New York, Mayor Zohran Mamdani urged residents to "look out for your neighbors" after updated forecasts showed the storm shifting closer to the city than first predicted.
From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 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
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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
“By the end of the game,” Woodin said, “she was predicting every play.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
Even before the race weekend began, drivers were predicting that overtaking would be next to impossible at the new Madring, and they were proved right.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
They were more accurate at measuring conscientiousness, and they were much more accurate at predicting both the students’ emotional stability and their openness to new experiences.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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The Language of Standardized Tests, List 1
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