- present tense form of predict (3rd person singular).
predicts
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A Wall Street Journal poll of analysts predicts headline CPI in September will rise 3.6% compared with the same period a year earlier, after August’s 3.4% increase.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
One is called a financial-transaction tax, and the Congressional Budget Office predicts it could amount to 0.1% on the sale and purchase of certain investment products.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
So Bierton predicts it won't be just Benin players who will be after the jersey.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
"From a scientific perspective, it suggests that the magnetic interactions within the material are totally different from what theory predicts," Berruto said.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
However, the tortoise theory fails to be a good scientific theory because it predicts that people should be able to fall off the edge of the world.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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