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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Perez made a very specific prediction on Tuesday night.
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Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 4 June 2025
His latest bold predictions for Starship came in a video SpaceX posted online last week.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 3 June 2025
Hopefully for the Steelers, this time around the prediction becomes reality.
—Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 June 2025
That’s the news from a leaker called Fixed Focus Digital, whose Weibo predictions have included some strong hits and a few misses — so they may yet be proved wrong.
—David Phelan, Forbes.com, 3 June 2025
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Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 4 June 2025
His latest bold predictions for Starship came in a video SpaceX posted online last week.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 3 June 2025
Hopefully for the Steelers, this time around the prediction becomes reality.
—Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 June 2025
That’s the news from a leaker called Fixed Focus Digital, whose Weibo predictions have included some strong hits and a few misses — so they may yet be proved wrong.
—David Phelan, Forbes.com, 3 June 2025
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“Prediction.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prediction. Accessed 10 Jun. 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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