Example Sentences

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But officials in March warned that already low snowpack levels were dwindling, predicating a critically dry year for the state.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2021

Coll documents the company’s consistent efforts to block international climate agreements and also its deceitful campaign to debunk science while predicating its own planning on that very science. 

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 27, 2017

“They were not longitudinal. They did no research. None. They were predicating this on some anecdotal evidence and looks at other sports, but those are apples and oranges.”

From New York Times • Sep. 10, 2014

And to be clear, I am predicating my advice on the understanding that your cheating days are over.

From New York Times • May 2, 2013

This second pronoun, by one of Paul’s abrupt turns of thought, is deprived of its predicating verb; but that is given already by the “hoped” of the last clause.

From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by Findlay, G. G.