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verb

past tense of predict

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Verb
In Kansas City, forecasters predicted fog and light rainfall would persist throughout the day, with areas of especially low visibility — less than a quarter of a mile in some places — expected to linger across central and eastern Kansas as well as central Missouri through the morning. Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 26 Dec. 2024 The weather service said northern and central Texas would likely be impacted, but the most severe storms were predicted to hit during the afternoon as the system pushes into eastern Texas. Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 26 Dec. 2024 This is a remarkable position for a team that was predicted to finish last in the division and go through a season in transition. Steve Silverman, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024 They're predicted by the theory of quantum chromodynamics, which concerns how the strong force binds quarks together to form protons and neutrons (and hyperons). Keith Cooper, Space.com, 25 Dec. 2024 The American Automobile Association (AAA) predicted a record-breaking year for holiday travel, with more than 119 million expected to hit the roads and the skies. Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 25 Dec. 2024 The mission was named after Eugene Parker, who first predicted the existence of the solar wind in the 1950s. Juliana Kim, NPR, 25 Dec. 2024 The storms are predicted to continue until Christmas Day, meaning Texans are likely in for a wet, not a white Christmas, this year. Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 25 Dec. 2024 Light rain is expected on Christmas Day and through Thursday while another storm system is predicted to move into the region on Friday, bringing continued rain through Saturday. Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 25 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for predicted
Adjective
  • Keep scrolling to learn what time the anticipated ceremony starts, along with free and paid viewing options on cable and streaming.
    Monica Mercuri, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2025
  • The New Year is the perfect time to refresh your bookshelf and reading list with the many highly anticipated page-to-screen adaptations coming in 2025.
    Emily Maskell, Vulture, 1 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • The bottom line In a sign of how much investors are currently worried about inflation returning, the Institute for Supply Management’s services index, an inflation reading typically secondary to more significant data points like the consumer price index, is sending shockwaves through the market.
    Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 8 Jan. 2025
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    James Barron, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • The wildfires have continued to burn across the region, with powerful Santa Ana winds and fire conditions forecasted for Tuesday, according to the National Weather Service.
    Kayla Jimenez, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2025
  • In Little Rock, Sunday is forecast to have a high of 32 degrees.
    Remington Miller, arkansasonline.com, 15 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Originally announced in 2002, the GEM has long been heralded as a symbol of Egypt‘s future, as part of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s Egypt Vision 2030, a large portion of which involves a major redevelopment of the Giza plateau, where GEM—and the famous Pyramids of Giza—is located.
    Costa Beavin Pappas, ARTnews.com, 3 Jan. 2025
  • The bid by Nippon faced political opposition from the moment it was announced in December 2023.
    Alan Rappeport, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2025

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