predicted

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The Labor Department said Friday that the U.S. added a seasonally adjusted 172,000 jobs in May, which is more than twice as much as analysts had predicted.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

Clement agrees: "Neither of us predicted what would happen at the end."

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026

The glaciers are predicted to be gone within 200 years.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

As the two black holes orbit each other, they gradually lose energy through the emission of gravitational waves, a process predicted by Einstein's theory of general relativity.

From Science Daily • Jun. 5, 2026

Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite and founder of the Nobel Peace Prize, had predicted that his powerful explosives might very well put an end to all war.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman