- present tense form of predict (3rd person singular).
predicts
Example Sentences
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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
Goldman Sachs predicts that widespread adoption could accelerate projects, slash capital expenditure and reduce the price of a barrel of oil by up to $11.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
It explains the Cosmic Microwave Background -- the faint radiation left over from the early Universe -- and accurately predicts how galaxies are distributed across vast cosmic distances.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
Once the big AI platforms start facing pressure from shareholders to show a profit, he predicts: "They will start clamping down."
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 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
