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If you predict something, you say that it will happen before anyone observes it. It is still difficult to accurately predict the weather more than two days in advance. As predicted by analysts, Toyota has increased the price of the Lexus LS400 by £3000 for 1993. Darwin's theory predicts that animals will try to maximise the number of their children.

predict

(= call) make a prediction about; tell in advance Call the outcome of an election (= bode) indicate by signs These signs bode bad news

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Simple sentences

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
We cannot really predict anything.
Some scientists predict that the world oil reserves will be used up within a century.
Is it really possible to predict an earthquake?
It's impossible to predict earthquakes.
Some people say they can predict the future.
We can't predict how Tom is going to feel.
I can't predict what might happen.
I can't predict what'll happen.
We can't really predict anything.
Can you predict the future?
She can predict the future.
He can predict the future.
Tom says he can predict the future.
The day will soon come when we will be able to predict earthquakes.
Which team do you predict will win the game?
The best way to predict the future is to create it yourself.
I can't predict the future.
Nobody can predict the future.
No one can predict the future.

Movie subtitles

You'll have to expect almost ten days of extreme conditions, against forces we can't predict.
We shall give them a big tea, but I venture to predict we shall not give them the cup.
I can predict his every reaction.
I predict he will make his exit. in a cloud of rotten oranges and dead cats.
I can't predict the outcome.
What did I predict?
O Leone, even were we able to predict the future and know nature's secrets, even that would not be perfect happiness.
That wasn't hard to predict.
But you didn't predict I would hate the regiment because of you, and your father would lose his recruiting money because I'm off to join Picardy.
What we'll eventually find in that new world, nobody can predict.
I predict this man will spend a great deal of time away from home.
Only because I know my people well. I can always predict their actions.
So far, the vote is running about even, and it is still impossible to predict. the final outcome.
Unfortunately we can't predict the circumstances.
I predict they're going to have the greatest year they've ever had.
I can predict his every reaction. I could tell you word for word exactly what he'd say.
Just predict the result if you are great.
If you can predict future events. how come you didn't see that we would almost run you over?
Are you saying you wanted me to predict your death? You're alive!
I can always predict their actions.
Why, i can predict fog, smog, rain, hail, sleet and snow 24 hours before it happens.
It's not diffiicult to predict for this story of mine biased, ambiguous and scandalized judgments.
Mr Pyncheon, I predict that such virtues will not remain unrewarded.
Then how did she predict the hold-up that took place today?
How could you. You're an intelligent man? How could you believe that we could predict anything that we don't know nothing about?
Your business is to predict the future, isn't it? Yeah, what of it?
But if Miranda is as sweet as you say. and understands a joke is a joke, and it's difficult to predict her reactions.
It was easy to predict!
Also this would create a precedent. the consequences of which are hard to predict.
How could you predict all this?
Because we can Nothing predict.
I predict the future.
Yes. It is better not predict.
Mrs. Osborne. did you come to me to predict my death?

News and current affairs

Deductive inference enables us to predict effects if we know the principles (the rule) and the cause.
Economists did not predict that event, either.
In the 1920's, some warned about an overpriced stock market, but they did not predict a decade-long depression affecting the entire economy.
Yet anyone who would like to predict Sharon's future behavior should remember that unlike Begin and Shamir, Sharon comes from the military, and for him security - not ideology - is supreme.
It is not difficult to overthrow Saddam, but it is impossible to predict who or what will take his place.
With their backs against the wall, I predict, poor and working-class Americans will begin to agitate for social justice.
The EU's fiscal surveillance mechanisms failed to predict these developments because they neglect a crucial variable: the dynamics of private-sector debt.
That depends on when you think the financial crisis will abate, and the timing of that is as hard to predict as exchange rates.
The bottom line is that we can't predict where the threat will emerge, so we need a distributed, intelligent detection system.
We do not blame physicians for failing to predict all of our illnesses.
Yes, most economists fail to predict financial crises - just as doctors fail to predict disease.
Based on extrapolation of growth trends, it looks safe to predict that prices will go up substantially in most of these places for another year or more, even as the rate of increase continues to decline.
Some drug researchers predict that with continuing advances in understanding the human genome, doctors may eventually be able to predict illnesses 15-20 years in advance, and begin prophylactic treatment immediately.
Most economic research suggests that gold prices are very difficult to predict over the short to medium term, with the odds of gains and losses being roughly in balance.
It is easy to predict that Sarajevo will be the place where they will meet to look back on Europe's savage twentieth century.
In an era where yesterday has become almost irrelevant and we can hardly predict tomorrow, the role of education must allow all children to reach their highest potential.
The study showed which tests were able to predict the outcome most accurately decades ahead of onset.
This year, two small studies of blood tests seemed to predict Alzheimer's 1-3 years before it occurred, but the tests are complicated and require the measurement of ten or more substances.
The trickier question is whether we will be able to predict Alzheimer's disease accurately in those with normal cognition and memory, or to predict it more than five years in advance.
There is no way to predict what the saving rate will do next.
Economists, as opposed to those who make their living gambling on stocks, make no claim to being able to predict when the day of reckoning will come, much less identifying the event that will bring down the house of cards.
No one can predict the direction in which Egypt's Sunni Islamist president and parliamentary majority will lead the country.

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