predicate
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After a review of the Epstein case last year, DOJ and FBI officials said in a July 2025 memo that they “did not uncover evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 1, 2026
“The object or the predicate comes first, the verb is in the middle and then the subject comes at the end,” says Watkins.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2025
But according to this newly released DOJ memo, there is no “incriminating ‘client list,’” no “credible evidence … that Epstein blackmailed prominent individuals” and no “evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties.”
From Salon • Jul. 8, 2025
The memo adds that investigators "did not uncover evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties".
From BBC • Jul. 7, 2025
Subjects are special: all verbs have one, and it sits outside the verb phrase, occupying one of the two major branches of the clause, the other being the predicate.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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