Synonym: anticipation, forecasting, foretelling, prevision, prognostication. Similar words: predict, jurisdiction, dictionary order, medication, fiction, reduction, conviction, restriction. Meaning: [prɪ'dɪkʃn] n. 1. the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future) 2. a statement made about the future.
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61. This is not the foolishly bold prediction of a diehard supporter, but the carefully weighed assessment of facts.
62. The input may be partial or incomplete, as discussed later in the paragraph on intuition, prediction, and statistical pattern-matching.
63. Empirical support for the prediction of future violence is very small.
64. In fairness to the smooth running of the place, shouldn't Silas be warned of Ling's prediction of trouble?
65. However, as it is for any poll, the Electoral College outlook is a snapshot in time, not a prediction.
66. Any prediction about the bond markets, of course, is part conjecture.
67. None of the cited studies of children evaluated the prediction of mortality.
68. Areas of poor acoustic quality but tightly constrained by local syntactic and semantic information would be identified through top-down prediction.
69. The process is difficult, and demands the performance of millions of calculations to reach even the most elementary prediction.
70. There are a number of qualifications to this prediction, apart from the possibility of economies of scale discussed above.
71. After the Watts rebellion, Johnsoh asked Hoover to expand his intelligence operations to include riot prediction.
72. Sachs tested this prediction by presenting subjects with passages containing a target sentence in various positions.
73. The alternatives to this approach fall into two distinct and equally unsatisfactory categories: 1. Anecdotal evidence, interpretation and prediction.
74. According to a response prediction model, the observed response rate was not related to the selection of patients likely to respond.
75. This prediction is derived from a free-form textual description of the problem.
76. That Edward's prediction of a storm was right was apparent to everyone by the middle of the day.
77. If the prediction is correct then a negative relationship should be observed.
78. But it is neither an elegy of the novel nor a grim prediction of its imminent demise.
79. This prediction, according to the same source,(www.Sentencedict.com) was based on her privileged knowledge.
80. Another collective title, the Angry Young Men, was to prove in the long term more accurate as prediction than description.
81. Only since 1960 have we possessed the technology to test the prediction locally.
82. The amazing prediction came yesterday by controversial agent Ambrose Mendy, the man behind Nigel Benn's rise to fame.
83. One prediction is that 50% of households will have two microwaves.
84. Take the new, improved version of the Cross of Lourdes being advertised in Prediction magazine.
85. An attempt at prediction, like that outlined above, would now have little chance of success.
86. My prediction is at some point several large casino companies are going to do the legal work.
87. Vanhanen's democracy prediction Political parties are a central element of modern representative democracies.
88. Like some other examples of futurology, this prediction did not come true.
89. Hence relative scale-adjusted commodity prices and relative factor rewards provide a valid prediction of the intersectoral pattern of trade.
90. At times the scribes contort their prose into uncomfortable postures to avoid the hazards of personal prediction.
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