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Which ancient practice tried to predict the future by studying the behavior of birds?

predict

[pri-dikt] / prɪˈdɪkt /


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Opponents of ditching testing requirements argued that the exams are a key tool to uniformly predict academic success from students of divergent backgrounds, as well as schools that may issue grades differently.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

The major destruction of hydropower infrastructure underscored the risks of that strategy in a region where glaciers are retreating, permafrost is thawing and extreme hazards are becoming harder to predict.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

Astronomers are finding that the first generations of galaxies do not always behave the way existing models predict.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

Exit polls conducted by Manx Radio predict seven outgoing MHKs will lose their seats, three of whom are current members of the Council of Ministers.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

Perhaps by examining the ground around Mount St. Helens, the scientists would be able to predict a big eruption and give everyone a warning.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone

Now an AI platform called AlphaFold predicts it in hours.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

"The number one trend for this season is messy girl," says Elektra Kotsoni, deputy director for Vogue Business and Vogue Runway, whose team predicts the trends ahead of each season.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

It will continue to work, he predicts, because someday Bitcoin will be $10 million apiece.

From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026

Using these inputs, Hicformer predicts gene activity across different types of cells.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026

"I see a pizza in your future. A large pizza with extra cheese. Madame Chocolata predicts pizza for dinner tonight!"

From "Case of the Sneaky Snowman: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #5" by Carolyn Keene

Small triangles would behave almost exactly as Euclid predicted, and short parallel paths would not noticeably converge.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

Guides predicted that untrained drivers would crowd or otherwise harass animals, or play down the importance of the wildlife expertise guides had built over years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

A nurse who had been on shift on the night Ethel was found told the police that Norris had predicted the 86-year-old might not last the night.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

Passage of the measure may be possible after the Nov. 3 election, Schiff predicted.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

When four world-class chess players—Svetozar Gligoric, Bent Larsen, Paul Keres, and Tigran Petrosian—were asked their opinion of who would prevail, all predicted that Reshevsky would be the winner, and by a substantial margin.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

That realisation helped him stay "stable and disciplined in prison", but also gave him a unique way of predicting what might happen next - and one guess was a prisoner swap.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

These results highlight the complexity of biology and the challenge of predicting outcomes from measurements taken many steps upstream.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

Some are predicting that a wet El Niño could bring back long-dry Tulare Lake, which reappeared atop thousands of acres of farmland in 2023.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026

Faux, who has been covering the currency much longer than I have, told me he has “given up predicting what’s going to happen to Bitcoin’s price.”

From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026

The seismology section had a million probes down here, with a ninety-nine point eight success rate at predicting the magma flares.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer




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