- present tense form of predict (3rd person singular).
predicts
Example Sentences
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The model predicts atmospheric temperature, composition and clouds, along with the infrared spectrum each object should produce.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
It also says it wants to spend extra money on tackling benefit fraud which it predicts will save as much as £2.8bn a year.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
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
Soberingly, Bank of America’s chief equity strategist Michael Hartnett predicts that the milestone of $50 trillion will be reached in July 2029.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
Scientists use something called a correlation to measure how closely one factor predicts another, and overall, the students’ ratings correlated with the experts’ ratings by .55, which is quite a high correlation.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
