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Which ancient practice tried to predict the future by studying the behavior of birds?

predict

[pri-dikt] / prɪˈdɪkt /


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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

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AI officer positions, he predicts every C-suite job will ultimately require AI savvy and specialized roles will become outdated.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

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

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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