predicted

[predicted]

To predict is to say what you think is going to happen in the future. If you predict that you'll win the poker championship, you're either really confident in your poker skills or you're cheating.

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Adjective S.
known beforehand


imp. & p. p.
of Predict


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Usage Examples

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted.

I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later.

It was a fantastic learning experience and OK, I got slammed because I wasn't Audrey Hepburn but you could have predicted that, really, if you'd opened your eyes wide enough.

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Other Usage Examples

I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that.

Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise.

Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I've had some failures. On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of fundamentalist Islam... and I'm not happy to be right in all of those cases.

Standing beneath the white light of an Apple store is like standing on a Stanley Kubrick movie set. His '2001: A Space Odyssey' predicted Jobs and a future where technology was our friend. Kubrick, of course, didn't like what he saw. And occasionally, I have my doubts.

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