Example Sentences

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"This is a new design principle that allows theorists to predictively identify materials in which flat bands arise due to strong electron correlations."

From Science Daily • Jan. 29, 2024

Then I pull one card from my deck and contemplate reflectively, not predictively, setting the mood for the day.

From New York Times • Jan. 29, 2021

The point, however, is not macrocosmic trend-tracking, but microcosmic customization: to predictively model the perceptions and preferences of increasingly narrow demographic clusters.

From The Guardian • May 23, 2018

Completing the journey is predictively and repeatably possible—anyone who claims otherwise is objectively wrong—but it’s also not for the faint of heart.

From Time • Dec. 19, 2016

They had played at "Lord and Lady," and rode about the terraces in a miniature sedan chair, and cooks and scullions winked and nodded, wisely and predictively.

From Mistress Penwick by Payne, Dutton