How To Use Predict In A Sentence

Unpredictable, emotional and alive, it is, in keeping with the area, soul with the rough edges intact.
The study predicted that, by 2022, the country would still require $7.2 billion in foreign aid a year—and that assumes an upsurge of so-far inexistent mining-industry revenue and no dramatic deterioration of security. Afghanistan Seeks Enduring Support
A separable reinforced concrete numerical model and fluid-solid interconnection method were used to predict the development of surface bulge in LS-DYNA.
Many predict 1991 will rival the great vintage of 1965.
This stuff doesn't merely placate the listener with predictable, danceable nursery rhymes but lashes out and lacerates the eardrum relentlessly.

It's difficult to predict with any degree of certainty how much it will cost.
It is not just about productivity, but predictability, speeding things up, making things flow smoothly.
An objective analogue prediction model of tropical cyclone track is brought forward that considers the synthetical evaluation environment.
“Yes, of course, the whole idea is utterly inane, but to let its predictable inanities blind you to its truly fabulous and breathtaking aspects is to do both oneself and the genre a disservice.” — The Codex Continual. Official Website of Steven E. Schend
These details are important for geodynamical modeling, which may one day predict complex geological processes such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
This means that the model can predict the surmountable obstacle height of an off-road vehicle and its-key influencing parameters can be obtained.
This defense of evidential decision theory is called the tickle defense because it assumes that an introspected condition screens off the correlation between choice and prediction. Causal Decision Theory
I promised a lowlight from a study predicting the future of boomers twenty years hence. The Boomer Blog: April 2008 Archives
You have predictive thoughts on what it might be and then you have reflective thoughts on what it was. Times, Sunday Times
Added together, market forces generate an overall result which no-one can predict.
They want compensation from Manchester Airport for money they predict will be lost from visitor revenue.
Other predictable starters included focaccia topped with portobello mushrooms with pancetta and garlic as well as bruschetta with poached plum tomato, ricotta and basil pesto.
Officials concerned with environmental policy predict that a day of reckoning will come.
Before Russia and Spain competed, Miermount accurately predicted scores for those countries. Innovative U.S. ties for fifth in synchronized swimming final
One last prediction the model makes is that the income differential paid to prostitutes will rise with the status the culture accords wives.
However, on a bad day chaos reigns, and nobody can predict a likely departure time.
The law is predicted to bring benefits not just for ramblers but for the whole region by attracting more walkers and tourists.
It was a metaphor that predicted the nature of the many problems that have beset excessively large inner urban secondary schools in the intervening years. Times, Sunday Times
In October, the retailer said it would shut 21% of its namesake North American stores over the next two years, coming to terms with the overextension of its store network before the recession and predictions that U.S. growth will be slow. Gap's Profit Falls 36%
The postmodern perspective, on the other hand, views the movement of historical time to be radically contingent and unpredictable.
So what about my predictions for next year? Times, Sunday Times
The news caused a reaction that was predictable. Times, Sunday Times
The fears are all thanks to a purported prediction of a major Roman quake Wednesday attributed to self-taught seismologist Raffaele Bendandi, who died in 1979. Quakes hit Italy, but none in Rome despite myth
The model spews out implications that are demonstrably falsifiable given an appropriate dataset; i.e., if one can lay one's hand on a dataset, then the model's predictions can be verified as either true or false.
A recalculation of the rate of retreat back then has allowed scientists to predict today's rates. The Sun
Each year forecasters predict that growth will resume the next.
No doubt, you have been very impressed indeed, by my unrivalled abilities in prediction.
Nicola Woods found that in a business setting, gender was a better predictor than status of who would interrupt whom.
He groped about for some answer that could be phrased in their language, letting his mind flicker from the modern electronic gadgets back to the old-time tide predicter. The Sky Is Falling
The three rivers can become impassable after rain, and trampers usually traverse west to east, so that the river wades are predictable at the time of departure.
The spaceport is predicted to bring as many as 4,000 jobs to the region. Canada Plans its First Spaceport | Impact Lab
Muscle strength was found to be a good predictor of exercise tolerance as well.
Tedious and predictable, it employs obvious situations and clichés instead of genuine suspense-building elements.
Some states proposed complicated statistical techniques for gauging school progress; others backloaded their predicted progress, with far greater gains toward the end of the 12-year timeline.
The will, probated in Sweden, survived the predictable contest from unhappy relatives, but there were other problems.
These superconductors usually contain more oxygen atoms than predicted by valence theory.
They based their predictions on one million-acre feet a year deficit of the Colorado River, massive amounts of evaporation from the lake and the viscous effects of a warming world from climate change. Dr. Reese Halter: Global Warming, Drought and the Grim Reaper
A key reason was that predictions of fossil fuel use rely heavily on economic predictions, which have been shown to be almost useless. Times, Sunday Times
Food industry watchers predict there will be more sales. Times, Sunday Times
Despite predictions of almost unbounded mobility, most people in industrialised nations are less physically active than ever before.
Increasing temperatures will aid the spread of water-borne diseases, and those carried by insects, it predicts.
The Port Talbot sample, which is predictably highly metalliferous, is especially enriched in Fe as a result of an abundance of spherulitic iron oxide condensates commonly
He is not predicting the demise of banks, but thinks their job will be different. Times, Sunday Times
As that arch-modernist T. S. Eliot predicted, ‘This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper.’
Implements the total management to the product cost a primary coverage is must carry on the science to the cost the predict that works out the reasonable plan.
European officials, however, tend to be more confident about their ability to predict, based on theory, likely effects in the future and are somewhat more skeptical of the self-correcting nature of markets.
Now physicists say they have used one of the most sophisticated pieces of string theory to predict properties of the ultradense matter created in an atom smasher in Long Island, N.Y. Speedlinking 3/5/07
Lacouture et al. found that a leukocyte count greater than 15,000/mm3 and a serum glucose greater than 150 mg./dl. are predictive of a serum iron concentration greater than 300 mcg./dl. 4 Iron Poisoning
They can also detect low blood pressure and predict seizures, thanks to their acute sense of smell. The Sun
These major die-offs will continue to occur at unpredictable intervals when the most extensive, persistent, extremely unfavourable snow and ice conditions prevail.
But, Colonel Hackworth, does that then re-change your former predictions? CNN Transcript Mar 29, 2003
Who could have predicted the dizzy pace of change in the country?
A semiempirical downscaling approach for predicting regional temperature impacts associated with climatic change. Statistical downscaling approach and downscaling of AOGCM climate change projections
No computer model of the economy can predict when the next recession will be.
It is a fetor that frequently accompanies the predictable libidinous lapses of pious \ "family values\" conservatives. Stephen Ducat: Hypocrisy in Red and Blue: How Republicans and Democrats Betray Their Principles Differently
The indie science-fiction movie is an unpredictable beast. Times, Sunday Times
But the nature of research is such that the results cannot be anticipated, so predicting what the next major advancements will be is really informed guesswork.
Predictably she has hunted for security in her other relationships.
Both patients and physicians are most interested in disease indicators that will best predict therapeutic responses and prognostic outcomes.
Two reputable City firms are predicting a decline of 0.2%. Times, Sunday Times
Added together, market forces generate an overall result which no-one can predict.
If this dereliction is allowed to persist, it is predictable that more Americans will die, both on foreign battlefields and at home. Stealth Jihad by Frank Gaffney, Jr. and The American Legion « Mark12ministries’s Weblog
In addition, two of the four dimensions that make up anxiety sensitivity -- the "fear of cognitive dyscontrol" and the "fear of publically observable anxiety symptoms" specifically predicted depression symptoms. Undefined
The most recent polls predict a tight three-way race.
Doctors are selling because complying with the ever-growing list of mandates has become more cumbersome; and while staff physicians on salary do gain predictability, they also lose the autonomy of independent practice. Big Insurance, Big Medicine
The characteristics that best predicted autotomy - smaller body size or female gender - also correlated with a lower escape rate by the alternative escape tactic, struggling and pinching the predator.
There is also high political risk resulting from the government's erratic and unpredictable policies. Times, Sunday Times
The company predicts that one day the technology could be used to manufacture human skeletons from cell tissue and biomaterial. Times, Sunday Times
The real issue, they predict, will boil down to fairness and simple human dignity.
Soaring debt - which at one stage was predicted to reach £11m - has led to a series of cuts ranging from ward closures to stopping snacks for patients.
The music was obvious and predictable, and the lyrics were about as feeble as I've ever heard.
The Duke's foray into the world of contemporary art yielded equally predictable results. Times, Sunday Times
It predicts another net 12,000 will go next year. Times, Sunday Times
Predictably, the appeal to personal experience is another well-known logical fallacy.
There's no way to predict the future health of the banking industry.
The ability of predictors of survival to prognosticate in individual patients is, of course, limited.
Prediction problem of trim - beam number in colored - textile manufacturing process scheduling is discussed.
A knowledgeable fan can predict most selections with unerring accuracy.
The move came as forecasters were predicting Arctic weather this weekend. Times, Sunday Times
String theory is a complete description of reality even though we don't understand its predictions in some extreme situations, especially those that have something to do with the ultratiny expanding universe. The Reference Frame
Methods of predicting machine life has systematically summarized with the emphasis on those which use theoretical analysis to substitute large scale prototype experiments.
Also, some observations indicate that the rate of filopodial elongation does not slow down with filopodial length as fast as predicted by our theory.
Why have those early predictions been confounded? Times, Sunday Times
But so far, the government has not dared to predict when good results may come.
Contractors will fabricate and test advanced structural components to failure to validate performance relative to predicted performance.
Yet evolution predicts not just successions of forms, but also genetic lineages from ancestors to descendants.
How these systems may respond to the rapid and major global warming predicted over the coming century is uncertain but largely dependent on whether coral-algal symbioses can adjust to decadal rather than millennial rates of climate change.
I dwelt on how she emerged from a coma shortly after her imminent demise had been predicted. Times, Sunday Times
It's still not possible to accurately predict the occurrence of earthquakes.
And a close-loop quality control system based on prediction model is designed according to the characteristics of forging process, which is based on a procedure information system, takes predict...
This formula is used to predict and simulate the space of many loss landslip.
Kim Jong Il, who passed away Saturday from an apparent heart attack at the age of 69 - the official cause was "overwork" - was an old-school dictator, predictably unpredictable. Washington Post: Breaking News, World, US, DC News & Analysis
The writing maintains the suspensefulness that has pervaded this book since #26, and I’m really enjoying the character work Bucky’s targetless rage, Tony’s grief clouding his much-vaunted predictive mind, Sharon’s horror at being controlled as well as Epting & Mike Perkins art. Captain America #30 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
Lisa accurately predicts the winners of sporting events that Homer gambles on so she can be closer to her father.
The algorithms ran their determined courses, and our thoughts followed one after another, as mechanical and as predictable as the planets in their orbits.
In their opening and closing games England's lumbering back four were hopelessly outmanoeuvred by bursts of fast, mobile, unpredictable attacks, like tankers anchored as speedboats darted around them.
France is now predicted to grow by just 0.7 per cent this year. Times, Sunday Times
Forecasters predicted another week of cold temperatures and icy, northerly winds. Times, Sunday Times
The weather there can be a bit unpredictable - one minute it's blue skies and the next minute it's pouring down.
The latest opinion polls are predicting a very close contest.
The predictions of standard economic theory – the expectation that freely operating markets will produce a certain kind of optimality – only hold good as long as the markets are not marred by serious imperfections. Limitations of markets
He was untamable and completely unpredictable, as though he was driven by an interior violence out of his control.
You have all the elements of a potential disaster in the making, speed, unpredictable elements, cold weather and mountains.
Two major control algorithms, fuzzy control algorithm of frequency and voltage and prediction control algorithm for switch-on, are analyzed in detail.
Today, for example, steps must be taken to ensure that employment tests are predictive of subsequent job performance and that interview questions treat all job applicants equally. Human Resource Management in Government
Experts predict another surge in cyber scam attempts this year. The Sun
The speech proved shorter than predicted and far more organized and disciplined than some of his previous appearances before Congress.
Public fascination with the romantic lives of our country's most powerful (mostly single) women is fairly predictable, train-wreck coverage that ranges from whispers of lesbianism to reports of so-called bitchy behavior to completely de-humanizing or hyper-sexualized commentary involving pantsuits. Maegan Carberry: Finding a Man's Love in a Man's World
Residual plots indicate a well-specified model where there is a lack of pattern between the standardized residuals and their predicted values.
Rill velocity, depth and flow will help determine the area's rill erodibility, a key component of the Erosion Prediction Project. Sierra Sun - Top Stories
The weather forecast predicts a sunny start on Sunday but showers arriving later in the day.
Nowadays I use color images from digital cameras as well as scans from slides, and the negatives print much more predictably.
The severity and unpredictably of higher latitude and alpine habitats present special challenges to birds and mammals who live out some or all of their lives there.
Most studies also do not take into account the complex interplay between different variables in predicting lung volumes.
Defense planners predict an extended period of retrenchment.
The future looked so bright that he predicted to an industry group in 1952 that TVs of the future would have printed circuit boards instead of tubes, have three-dimensional images, and be atomic-powered. Son of Founder Turned Motorola Into Cellphone Giant
The universally-shared human motive of rational self-interest makes human action predictable, generalisable and controllable.
We had a predictably halting start, but there were no shockers or disasters.
A bright future as a professional was predicted and it did not take long to materialise. Graeme McDowell: 'I don't want to win one major and then disappear'
The situations were the predictable ones, showing young boys (but sometimes men) seduced by women in a form of authority - governesses, nursemaids, nurses, schoolteachers, stepmothers.
If the room had a little light apart from the faulty bedside lamp that flickered unpredictably every few minutes it wouldn't be so bad, or even just a fan that at least to cool and circulate the foul damp air.
Election officials predict they'll set a new turnout record for an off-year election in Washington state.
By staging the fish, previously scored for boldness, in dyadic contests against siblings, we also tested the prediction that bolder individuals are more likely to become dominant.
Fiedler Contingency Theory's predictive function to leadership effectiveness needs to be further studied.
I understand that the network needs to constantly stay ahead of and predict trends, and they obviously do that with inductions of new shows, like the "carb"-focused ones, but surely not at the expense of the stable of veterans that built FoodTV from the beginning to what it is today. Archive 2005-03-01
By comparison, the reveal of the big villain comes off as both predictable and a little cardboardy. Archive 2010-04-01
Londonist scoured some of the weather sites and found the following predictions.
RBF neural network is used to predict nugget sizes of resistance spot welder, in which the input vectors are constructed by time sequences of cycle parameters.
In order to improve the prediction accuracy, a rolling learning-prediction procedure was introduced to deal with the time variant property of the bioprocess.
He tore up previous dire forecasts and predicted growth is likely to double next year. The Sun
It predicts that spindle microtubules in animal cells begin to oscillate at the beginning of prometaphase, and that those oscillations rapidly accelerate until metaphase,. Wells vs tiny flies - The Panda's Thumb
He predicted Jones would “discountenance the movement under the impression that the United States will have the right, and will be bound to remove the Mexican military from east of the Rio Grande after annexation.” A Country of Vast Designs
After the Watts rebellion, Johnsoh asked Hoover to expand his intelligence operations to include riot prediction.
When ‘climate change’ is referred to in the press, it normally means greenhouse warming, which, it is predicted, will cause flooding, severe windstorms, and killer heat waves.
CO2Pirate to account and ask why their predictions of death, doom and destruction never eventuated? Cyclone Yasi: Queensland takes stock of damage
Just as predictably, their basis for that outrage is a highly dishonest portrayal of what Forrest writes.
It is my prediction that protesting may yet become the recreational pursuit of choice in the 21st century.
Voluspa," or Song of the Prophetess, a kind of sibylline lay, which contains an account of the creation, the origin of man and of evil, and concludes with a prediction of the destruction and renovation of the universe, and a description of the future abodes of happiness and misery. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities
The rest of the movie is a lot like that: moody and unpredictable, using lots of close-ups and jerky documentary-style zooms and fast cuts.
The unfunded liabilities in entitlement schemes are already showing that they're reaching their tipping points a decade earlier than projected; for the last five months, Social Security has taken in less money into the "trust fund" than it has disbursed - in other words, the tipping point predicted (variously) in 2014, 2018, 2019, 2023, etc - it is here and now: social security is now having to be made whole by the general fund. Latest Articles
We have shown that red cell volume predicts outcome in preterm infants.
Development of improved models to predict field-scale dispersion is a continuing area of research.
You can use these types of natural family planning to predict when you'll ovulate — and when you need to avoid unprotected sex if you don't want to conceive.
The future direction of the Irish property market has become as unpredictable as the weather.
as its producers predicted Chinese authorities would object to its violence but declined to edit out the more brutal scenes.
Experts predict about 220,000 people a year will caught by the new crackdown. The Sun
During the early part of this century, before Caesarean sections were commonplace or indeed safe, pelvimetry (measurements of the maternal pelvis) was frequently employed in an attempt to predict the outcome of labour.
Over the last two decades, predictions about the social effects of the Internet have ranged from cybernetic anarchy (both utopian and distopian) to the instantiation of a fascistic regime of surveillance that would make Orwell look like a piker. Discourse.net: I'll Be Speaking in London on Nov. 17
The weather of course played a major role in the outcome in 2003, hopefully as the Grand Prix has moved to June there will not be such changeable and unpredictable conditions during the race.
As demand theory predicts, the higher the premium or amount a consumer is requested to pay, the less likely a consumer will be willing to pay the premium.
Other doctors refused to put a timeframe on his survival because of the unpredictability of the cancer. Times, Sunday Times
The future exchange exists as a central place for folks that have real goods to exchange -- the cash market -- to obtain predictability and certainty about the gains or losses from making a cash trade today that has a future delivery date. Here's a tax target for ya (Jack Bog's Blog)
A sweepstake was held among rugby scribes in Sydney for the final between Australia and some other mob, the money going to the correspondent predicting the correct score, or nearest.
The vibey twin-cylinder engine disguised its true potential with a linear predictability. The Sun
The equipment became a crucial part of the experiment, for its data experimentally verified the predictions.
Predictions of exceptionally high tides are given in bold type.
Unpredictability and inconstancy in parenting is one very important factor affecting a child negatively.
We have only a limited capacity for checking the accuracy of many environmental monitoring results, let alone of predictions.
The boys, Kevin and Fred, both predictable to a tee, settled for the Chicken Tikka Masala.
Forgetting her father’s prediction, Bloodstone was brave enough to rush at the monster.
You can't predict with any accuracy the total amount of anything that the whole country's going to need.
Sales were five percent lower than predicted.
Conversely, the Inland analysis reinforces other research that shows that disinvesting in the product is predictive of declining circulation and revenues.
Witte spent most of his last years abroad, depressed and bitter, predicting doom. The Return
No one can predict with complete / total confidence what will happen in the financial markets.
The second law can be applied to the prediction of creep failure, such as rockslides, colluvial-deposit landslides and loess landslides as well as clay landslides with locked patches.
It's impossible to predict what he'll do - he just acts when the spirit moves him.
The prediction of 4 million unemployed now looks horrifyingly realistic.
Now however[Sentencedict], a miniature version of the race riot that Gallagher had predicted exploded on campus.
The economic growth rate for next year has slipped further and further as the year goes on, with the latest prediction from the government's top think tank readjusting the figure to a paltry 2.6 percent.
It is very difficult at this juncture to predict the company's future.
That's the central prediction of economic forecasters and we have to take what they say seriously. Times, Sunday Times
She predicts pretax earnings of over $13m for the company this year.
The exchange predicted that some or all of the money paid from the pool would be reimbursed by insurers. Times, Sunday Times
Some of this was predicted, but you could never see through the haze, it was all surmise.
Climate change predictions for the North of England suggest winters will become wetter, with more rainfall and greater inflow to estuaries and the sea.
One of the major benefits of using omnivorous predators as biological control agents is the potential for predicting and promoting their efficacy.
The father is so unpredictable that the only way the social services can visit is in the company of two burly security guards. Times, Sunday Times
As if fulfilling the portentous predictions of some medieval soothsayer, the first year of this new century has witnessed an unprecedented catalogue of warnings of the cumulative effects of climate change.
They also predict a future shortage of translators, interpreters and language teachers. Times, Sunday Times
The next section shows that electrostatic theory predicts this lateral sequestration of a polyvalent lipid.
Both these predictions have of course been shown to be false in just a few years.
He added that he was personally more interested in seeing close, unpredictable matches. Times, Sunday Times
The brown cloud shows man's activities are making climate change more unpredictable everywhere.
It can be reconciled with everything in Scripture, at least if the statements of Jesus on hell are taken as minatory rather than predictive.
There were gloomy predictions that the weather would deter buyers, but on the day a lengthy queue had formed an hour before the doors opened. Times, Sunday Times
Because many factors are involved and they are dynamic, responses of crops cannot be easily predicted, yet agronomically they are of considerable importance.
These findings are consistent with previous reports that visual processing contributes to prediction of reading skills both in English and Chinese orthographies.
Every year the weather is most unpredictable for this event and this year's was no exception.
According to the result, it is possible to make a mid or short term prediction of big earthquakes in the adjacent region of seismic source after huge earthquake occurs.
The e-nose predicted whether twelve odorant receptors from Drosophila would respond to 21 new odorants with roughly 75 percent accuracy. "MAIN" via Steve in Google Reader
As predicted, many get there because of so-called exogenous shocks: a major media announcement, a celebrity endorsement, a dignitary's death.
He was particularly scathing about a young political adviser who, he predicted, would be the ruin of us. Times, Sunday Times
And then you realise that it's formulaic, predictable - and still almost to the point of perfection.
I sure wish I could agree with your prediction but America has been gerrymandered into easily predictable red or blue districts.

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