Sentence examples for predict from inspiring English sources
predict
To make a prediction: to forecast, foretell, or estimate a future event on the basis of knowledge and reasoning; to prophesy a future event on the basis of mystical knowledge or power.
- Professor Trelawney kept predicting Harry's death, which he found extremely annoying.
"predict" is correct and usable in written English. You can use it when you want to talk about the act of forecasting something or making an educated guess about the future. For example, "Analysts predict that the stock market will rebound in the coming month.".
"Dreams are predictive in my opinion," she says, adding that "they don't really predict the future, because no one can do that.
But he added: "Sometimes parts of the Conservative party move but they move more slowly, or a few paces behind the centre of gravity of social attitudes which have changed and will probably continue to change in ways that it is hard to predict.
Investments will drop by 5.8% and sales by 1.3%, they predict.
Thus it was able to predict "double-digit" enhancement to earnings in the first year of ownership; if achieved, that would be a good start.
Among new releases, one of the hardest outcomes to predict was Spooks: The Greater Good.
One did not need to be a rune-reader to predict their meeting in the second round of Italia 90 was likely to be spicy.
Something is stirring in Turkey's Kurdish region, and some predict a seismic shift in Turkish politics.
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