Predict

prɪˈdɪkt

verb

to say or estimate that something will happen in the future

The word 'predict' comes from the Latin word 'praedīcere', which means 'to foretell or announce beforehand'. Predictions can be based on data, patterns, or intuition, but they always involve making an educated guess about future events.

Bayta said, “If the story of Seldon is true, he foresaw the complete collapse of the Empire through his Jaws of psychohistory, and was able to predict the necessary thirty thousand years of barbarism before the establishment of a new Second Empire to restore civilization and culture to humanity.

Asimov, Isaac

Foundation 2 - Foundation and Empire

Her many attractions were again dwelt on, and Caroline boasted joyfully of their increasing intimacy, and ventured to predict the accomplishment of the wishes which had been unfolded in her former letter.

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

Nobody could predict what he was going to be interested in next.

Kurt Vonnegut

Cat's Cradle

It was a known fact that Guild navigators could predict no way to take control of the spice without producing just such a nexus.

Herbert, Frank

Dune

“I would certainly not presume to predict anything quite as far-fetched as that!”Harry climbed back down the ladder and the spiral staircase, wondering . . .

J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

As regards Richard Wagner, however, the more French music learns to adapt itself to the actual needs of the âme moderne, the more will it “Wagnerite”; one can safely predict that beforehand—it is already taking place sufficiently!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Beyond Good and Evil

I’ve heard tales of the Red King’s madness and that the Dan-Tete has come to take his place, and all I can say is ‘I’ll believe it when I see it.’ Same with this wonderful news about how a gunslinger-man’s come out of the west to save the Tower, as the old tales and songs predict.

Stephen King

Dark Tower 7 - The Dark Tower

I predict from all this an avalanche of dinners and routs.

Alexandre Dumas

The Count of Monte Cristo

'But I wouldn't try to predict if your recovery will be slight, partial, or total.

King, Stephen

Apt Pupil

in 1787, I predict that all was lost, from the day when I beheld the Duc de Rohan, Prince de Léon, Duc de Chabot, Duc de Montbazon, Marquis de Soubise, Vicomte de Thouars, peer of France, go to Longchamps in a tapecu!

Victor Hugo

Les Misérables

We don’t know what challenge the demigods will face, but since the first Great Prophecy predicted the Titan War, we can guess the second Great Prophecy will predict something at least that bad.” “Or worse,” Chiron murmured.

Rick Riordan

The Lost Hero

Who can predict his comings and goings?

Henry David Thoreau

Walden

While they try to predict what dishes will be served, I keep seeing the old man's head being blown off.

Suzanne Collins

Catching Fire

The danger is that those who predict real events may overlook the polarizing effect brought about by overindulgence in their own truth.

Frank Herbert

Children of Dune

But which groups will ultimately prevail, no man can predict; for we know that many groups, formerly most extensively developed, have now become extinct.

Charles Darwin

The Origin of Species

But I predict that just when you see with horror that in spite of all your efforts you are getting farther from your goal instead of nearer to it—at that very moment I predict that you will reach it and behold clearly the miraculous power of the Lord who has been all the time loving and mysteriously guiding you.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Brothers Karamazov

He endeavored to trap and nourish the impression in order to predict, and perhaps even control, what incident would occur next, but the afatus melted away unproductively, as he had known beforehand it would.

Heller, Joseph

Catch-22