predictive

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Predicting incident trends can be a form of predictive policing, which uses data to anticipate where, when and how crime may occur.

From Salon • Apr. 23, 2026

William Pulte, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, said in a statement that “more predictive models” will help “millions of Americans who responsibly pay rent qualify for mortgages.”

From MarketWatch • Apr. 22, 2026

The predictive text is supposed to learn your style and improve over time, but depending on the fixes you do or don’t accept, it can learn incorrect spellings in place of correct ones.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

Instead, they produce responses via token prediction, effectively a more complex version of predictive text.

From Slate • Mar. 28, 2026

Predictive Dreams Another presumed kind of extrasensory perception is the predictive dream.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos