predictive
adjective
of or relating to prediction.
predictively
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a word derived from
predictive.
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
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
There are, of course, the predictively reflexive institutional players: Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and the American Civil Liberties Union.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 21, 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 Dutton Payne
