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“The industry is so constantly in flux that it’s impossible to predict what this will mean,” Kissack said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
Even the Old Faithful geyser becomes less faithful: its usually regular eruptions become harder to predict.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
Many things about Russia are hard to predict.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
As a result, Bitcoin is far more volatile than gold, and tomorrow’s price is as difficult to predict as the next viral meme.
From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026
“A fancy fortune-teller with a bunch of college degrees. He uses science and computers to predict the future. He can tell you what’s going to happen in ten, twenty years.”
From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein
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It will continue to work, he predicts, because someday Bitcoin will be $10 million apiece.
From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026
This is not a left-field forecast: S&P Global predicts a 24% supply gap by 2040 also.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
While it is trendy for companies to create chief AI officer positions, he predicts every C-suite job will ultimately require AI savvy and specialized roles will become outdated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
The Environment Agency predicts that if rainfall averages through the autumn and winter months, most of England will be in recovery from drought or will have returned to normal conditions by spring 2026.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
Yet it predicts the motions of the sun, the moon, and the planets to a high degree of accuracy.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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But, as predicted by the CAPM, they will perform especially poorly if the earnings reported during that week turn out to be unexpectedly poor.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
A recent Los Angeles County economic report predicted the merger could lead to an estimated 4,500 workers in the Los Angeles region losing their jobs as Ellison works to combine the two companies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has predicted that AI would lead to the first one-person company worth $1 billion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
Along with Ipswich, Hull are the only other team I've predicted to lose all their games so far.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Wasn’t he the prodigy predicted to become World Champion in two years?
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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The highly anticipated genre-busting film has already generated strong Oscar buzz, with some awards prognosticators predicting that it could squeeze into the best picture category for the first time in Academy Awards history.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 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
“By the end of the game,” Woodin said, “she was predicting every play.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
“Always predicting things that come true. Always dreaming stuff and it come out. Fella says I should go in the business. Says I’m a natural medium. You remember that?”
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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