noun
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accurate
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Another collective title, the Angry Young Men, was to prove in the long term more accurate as prediction than description.
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Tarot is believed to be one of the most accurate forms of prediction .
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Check it after the lesson to see how accurate your predictions were.
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Such a model facilitates accurate predictions of the average change in charge radii for nuclei.
dire
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The crisis has unsettled financial markets and brought dire predictions of revolution or civil war from some politicians.
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He was walking in spite of all those specialists and their dire predictions .
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When a highly qualified professional makes such a dire prediction , one has to sit up and take notice.
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He derived, so far as I could tell, not the slightest satisfaction from seeing his most dire predictions fulfilled.
early
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But it's a bit early to make predictions .
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Pessimistic early predictions seem to be confirmed by more recent data.
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On the television front, satellite had not swept the country to the extent indicated by early predictions .
gloomy
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Horror stories, complaints and gloomy predictions are plentiful.
theoretical
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These results confirmed the theoretical predictions and aroused great interest in FELs.
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But if the fundamental variable is altered, so too are the theoretical predictions .
■ VERB
confirm
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Later work, including a recent ESRC- supported investigation by Sugden and Starmer, has tended to confirm these predictions .
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And the trends of the past few decades seem to confirm that prediction .
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These results confirmed the theoretical predictions and aroused great interest in FELs.
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Studies carried out in Hull, did nothing to confirm this prediction .
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That at least confirms their predictions of how the world is.
lead
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A high tide had led to predictions of one of the largest bores of the year.
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This approach, although still somewhat restrictive has led to reasonable predictions of relaxation and retardation spectra.
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This has led to predictions that a large number of new grammar schools may be created.
make
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In consequence, one might make two predictions .
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If a Republican were in the White House, the Democrats would be making similar charges and predictions .
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Euravia's history is altogether too brief for any outside to make positive predictions about its future.
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Local forecasters are then expected to make their predictions from them.
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Scholars compare to provide context, make classifications, test hypotheses, and make predictions .
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It is also extremely difficult to make predictions about such babies in the first few weeks of life.
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This property of amplification makes it impossible to make long-term predictions about evolution, as one can in astronomy.
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Meteorologists use the data to make flood predictions , which are expected to be released later this month.
provide
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This theory builds upon transactions cost theory but, its proponents would argue, provides clearer predictions .
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In this case relative factor rewards also provide a valid prediction of the intersectoral pattern of trade.
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In one sense it is a simplification, but also it is a clarification which is intended to provide understanding and prediction .
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Also, the approach has provided few concrete predictions or hypotheses that are subject to rigorous empirical measurement and testing.
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More important, it may provide useful predictions .
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The fact that relative factor endowments provide a valid prediction of the intersectoral pattern of trade was established in this chapter.
test
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A natural extension of the two approaches is to combine them and test both predictions at the same time.
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To test these comparative static predictions , we carry out a similar exercise on the actual data.
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Only since 1960 have we possessed the technology to test the prediction locally.
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The models will then be tested by comparing their predictions with the behaviour of people making idealised decisions in the laboratory.
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Sachs tested this prediction by presenting subjects with passages containing a target sentence in various positions.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
dire warning/prediction/forecast
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He was walking in spite of all those specialists and their dire predictions.
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Take the current fascination with dire forecasts, for example.
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That was the rift that grabbed headlines late in 1990, as a result of a dire forecast.
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The dire warnings of world shortages have not come to pass.
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The crisis has unsettled financial markets and brought dire predictions of revolution or civil war from some politicians.
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The most dire forecasts say rising mercury on Earth could bring about both devastating floods and droughts.
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When a highly qualified professional makes such a dire prediction, one has to sit up and take notice.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Despite their confident predictions, sales of the new car have not been very good.
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It's too early to make any predictions about the election results.
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One prediction is that 50% of households will have two microwaves.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A natural extension of the two approaches is to combine them and test both predictions at the same time.
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But Donald Rumsfeld's appointment as defence secretary makes those predictions look naive.
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Empirical support for the prediction of future violence is very small.
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Planning assumptions are predictions about the probable environments in which plans are expected to operate.
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Pundits' predictions of repossessions topping 80,000 during 1991 hit the headlines.
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This principle, then, makes certain general predictions about acquisition.
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What were the sources of these predictions?