Examples of prediction in a Sentence
Journalists have begun making predictions about the winner of the coming election.
Despite predictions that the store would fail, it has done very well.
The figures and statistics are used for the prediction of future economic trends.
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The bitcoin price has rocketed to over $100,000 per bitcoin, up 30% from its April lows, triggering a wave of bullish bitcoin price predictions that could see the bitcoin price eventually flip gold’s $20 trillion market capitalization.
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Billy Bambrough, Forbes.com, 11 May 2025
As if this summer's scorching weather prediction from the Old Farmer's Almanac wasn't enough to set us all—ahem—ablaze, hurricane season 2025 is also poised to set some records.
—Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 10 May 2025
The Futures Lab, a new initiative unveiled at the Quirino Awards, brought together leading voices from the Ibero-American animation to grapple not with predictions but with possibilities.
—Callum McLennan, Variety, 10 May 2025
If that prediction comes true, who knows what might happen at Oakmont and Royal Portrush.
—Julio Cesar Valdera Morales, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 May 2025
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Billy Bambrough, Forbes.com, 11 May 2025
As if this summer's scorching weather prediction from the Old Farmer's Almanac wasn't enough to set us all—ahem—ablaze, hurricane season 2025 is also poised to set some records.
—Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 10 May 2025
The Futures Lab, a new initiative unveiled at the Quirino Awards, brought together leading voices from the Ibero-American animation to grapple not with predictions but with possibilities.
—Callum McLennan, Variety, 10 May 2025
If that prediction comes true, who knows what might happen at Oakmont and Royal Portrush.
—Julio Cesar Valdera Morales, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 May 2025
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“Prediction.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prediction. Accessed 16 May. 2025.
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prediction
noun
pre·dic·tion
pri-ˈdik-shən 
1
: an act of predicting
2
: something predicted : forecast
a prediction that there would be an earthquake
predictive
adjective
-ˈdik-tiv
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