predict
- to declare or tell in advance; prophesy; foretell: to predict the weather; to predict the fall of a civilization.
- to foretell the future; make a prediction.
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foresee, envision, conclude, anticipate, forecast, call, think, figure, prophesy, portend, vaticinate, prognosticate, surmise, guess, forebode, presage, infer, conjecture, read, adumbrateExamples from the Web for predicting
Contemporary Examples of predicting
To understand what The Comeback was predicting, first you need to understand what The Comeback was—and it was so many things.
Not so long ago, many were predicting that the government shutdown would kill Republican chances in 2014.
But more importantly, Wang is the only one predicting Democrats will win.
So this war could end up being the disaster critics are predicting.
And in North Korea, predicting low fronts brings with it similarly high stakes.
Historical Examples of predicting
Before this had happened twice, all the town was talking about it, and predicting evil.
Heather and SnowGeorge MacDonald
I must say she seems better at reading the past than predicting the future.
Grace Harlowe's Golden SummerJessie Graham Flower
You need no longer laugh at me for predicting your fate in San Francisco.
The Crusade of the ExcelsiorBret Harte
The other went on lecturing her, predicting they would end in the workhouse.
Madame BovaryGustave Flaubert
And yet this friend ended like the rest in predicting defeat.
The Light of the StarHamlin Garland
predict
- (tr; may take a clause as object) to state or make a declaration about in advance, esp on a reasoned basis; foretell