predict
A2Academic AWL-4Frequent NGSL-2UK /prɪˈdɪkt/US /prɪˈdɪkt/
Meaning
verb
to say that something will happen in the future
“predict something, a reliable method of predicting earthquakes”
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“but I’m curious about your timelines and how you predict”
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“I could not believe I had pledged allegiance to research, where our job -- you know, the definition of research is to control and predict, to study phenomena for the explicit reason”
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“And those judgments can predict really meaningful life outcomes like who we hire or promote, who we ask out on a date.”
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