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UK
/pɹɪdˈɪktəbli/
]
[ US /pɹɪˈdɪktəbɫi/ ]
[ US /pɹɪˈdɪktəbɫi/ ]
ADVERB
-
in a predictable manner or to a predictable degree
predictably, he did not like the news
How To Use predictably In A Sentence
- 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
- Predictably she has hunted for security in her other relationships.
- Predictably, the appeal to personal experience is another well-known logical fallacy.
- 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
- 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.
- We had a predictably halting start, but there were no shockers or disasters.
- 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.
- Just as predictably, their basis for that outrage is a highly dishonest portrayal of what Forrest writes.
- The paradox is all the stranger because the power shortage has had predictably grave consequences for economic growth.