Example Sentences

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For years, many investors have predicated their portfolios on the bet that AI will become a revolutionary technology, powering economic growth and corporate profits.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 11, 2026

Throughout the week in Vegas, Jones had insisted the fight with Gane was a mismatch, but few could have predicated such a dominant performance.

From BBC • Mar. 5, 2023

Western powers and the International Monetary Fund have predicated any assistance on the formation of a new government and the enactment of reforms aimed at reducing corruption and getting state spending under control.

From New York Times • Jul. 15, 2021

There was a character about Madame Defarge, from which one might have predicated that she did not often make mistakes against herself in any of the reckonings over which she presided.

From A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens, Charles

If we think of the sun and then try to conceive of the cessation of the solar flame and heat, we have predicated the nonexistence of the sun.

From The Promulgation of Universal Peace by `Abdu'l-Bahá