How to Use predicate in a Sentence

predicate

1 of 3 noun

• The number of the verb depends on the subject, not the predicate (what comes after the verb).
  — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Aug. 2021
• Xie’s swallowed commands, shorn of their predicates, suggest that the rules of her art cannot be codified.
  — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2018
• What is the predicate for his actions in releasing this statement?
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 18 June 2017
• Right or wrong, perhaps the Israeli government perceived Tlaib’s predicate for the visit as the ultimate fig leaf.
  — Fox News, 17 Aug. 2019
• This represents a pretty aggressive vision to move the pool of predicates in the direction of new performance standards.
  — Thomas M. Burton, WSJ, 26 Nov. 2018
• The cheerleaders’ legal claims The factual assertions detailed above serve as predicates for the specific legal claims levied against the Texans.
  — Michael McCann, SI.com, 25 June 2018
• The predicate for installing metal detectors at each entrance of the House floor is false, Republican lawmakers say.
  — Kerry Picket, Washington Examiner, 1 Mar. 2021
• Each of these arguments ignores its own racist predicate — the presumption that Black people are too dumb to understand which party favors their best interests.
  — Kyle Whitmire, al, 24 June 2020
• More than 200 federal crimes can be legal predicates for money laundering Byrne added in a Monday interview.
  — USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2017
• Thus, there is no predicate of criminal behavior necessary to begin such a review.
  — Murray Waas, Vox, 9 Nov. 2018
• International law requires a credible threat as a predicate for a strike and has measures against hitting civilian targets.
  — Ron Kampeas, sun-sentinel.com, 1 Dec. 2020
• In an instance of misdirection for the ages, a spate of commentary has pointed the finger at Donald Trump for supposedly creating the predicate for Putin’s brutalizing of Ukraine.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 15 Mar. 2022
• Some American officials had hoped to use the secret negotiations to obtain Mr. Warmbier’s release as the predicate for a dialogue with the North on other issues.
  — Mark Landler and Gardiner Harris, New York Times, 20 June 2017
• But the predicate for Trump policy is that strategic patience, the policy of the Obama administration, your administration, failed, so something else has to be tried.
  — WSJ, 22 May 2017
• But in drawing these lines, analysts said, Mr. Giuliani may be signaling to Mr. Mueller the outer boundaries of the president’s tolerance or even laying a predicate for later firing the special counsel.
  — Peter Baker, New York Times, 21 May 2018
• Geddes also broke down each of the 14 racketeering predicate acts that were alleged in the indictment as well as the elements prosecutors had to prove beyond a reasonable doubt to secure a conviction.
  — Tribune Media Services, al, 26 Sep. 2021
• The Nunes memo that alleged a political and abusive predicate for the Russia probe wasn't exactly embraced by Republicans, but it's contributed to Trump's narrative.
  — Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 30 May 2018
• The predicate is alarm about a shortage of semiconductors, but the point would also be to invest in areas such as quantum computing, biomedical medical research, and data storage.
  — William A. Galston, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2021
• Human capital is the single most important predicate to emergence from the middle-income ghetto in which countries like Mexico wallow.
  — Anne Stevenson-Yang, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2021
• This was the predicate for his recusal from the Intelligence Committee’s Russia investigation.
  — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2018
• For medical algorithms, the definition of equivalency under 510(k) should be narrowed to consider whether the data sets or machine learning tactics used by the new device and its predicate are similar.
  — Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2021
• But that eventuality must not be discussed until the government is ready to lay the predicate for it with careful persuasion of the American public and America’s allies, and careful preparation for the military action required.
  — Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 9 Aug. 2017
• Horowitz concluded that the investigation had a legal predicate, was not launched for partisan reasons and yet was marred by gross and possibly criminal errors in the ongoing surveillance of low-level Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
  — CBS News, 14 Dec. 2019
• The resulting documents revealed that there was no proper predicate for investigating Flynn.
  — The Editors, National Review, 15 Dec. 2020
• What happened was they were exposed to a false environment, an environment that reorganized the categories of reality, which seemed to deny the dominion of time, and whose predicate was ultimately revealed to be inimical to the human spirit.
  — David Milch, Vulture, 7 Sep. 2022
• The Justice Department determined that there had been no underlying basis to investigate Flynn (i.e., there was insufficient predicate to investigate him as a criminal suspect or as a clandestine agent of Russia).
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 1 Sep. 2020
• The number of the verb depends on the subject, not the predicate (what comes after the verb).
  — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Aug. 2021
• Xie’s swallowed commands, shorn of their predicates, suggest that the rules of her art cannot be codified.
  — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2018
• What is the predicate for his actions in releasing this statement?
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 18 June 2017
• Right or wrong, perhaps the Israeli government perceived Tlaib’s predicate for the visit as the ultimate fig leaf.
  — Fox News, 17 Aug. 2019

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predicate

2 of 3 verb

• Both schools are scheduled to join the SEC by 2025, but could a new deal predicate a sooner move?
  — Matt Murschel, Orlando Sentinel, 6 Sep. 2022
• And the success is predicated on Moore, who turns 28 next month.
  — Paul Doyle, courant.com, 22 May 2017
• The treaty itself was predicated on Germany’s guilt for the war.
  — National Geographic, 31 May 2019
• The lease payments will be predicated on a percentage of the gross rents over 60 years.
  — The San Diego Union-Tribune Staff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 2024
• Hate crimes, which are predicated on the state of mind of the aggressor, are challenging to prove in court.
  — Rozina Ali, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2024
• But that was predicated on the growing mass of the region’s middle class.
  — The Economist, 24 Aug. 2019
• And [the business model is] not predicated off of that anyway, because the name of the game is subscribers.
  — Time, 20 July 2023
• It could be predicated on where the Heat's record and injury report stands on Dec. 1.
  — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 11 Nov. 2019
• Trump’s campaign was predicated on the idea that crime was out of control.
  — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2017
• Some of this is also predicated on some of the other risks that lurk too, that are maybe less in our control.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 17 June 2023
• Of course, most of this is predicated on Philip Rivers' performance in the 2020 season.
  — Scott Horner, Indianapolis Star, 26 Mar. 2020
• The whole game will be predicated on those two points, as will my handicap.
  — Tanner McGrath, Chicago Tribune, 25 Mar. 2023
• The success of the offense was predicated on ball movement.
  — Emmett Hall, sun-sentinel.com, 1 Aug. 2019
• Of course, this was all predicated on the Dolphins taking care of business.
  — Adam H. Beasley, miamiherald, 24 Dec. 2017
• And when is this witch hunt going to stop what it was all predicated on the biggest anti-Trump which hunters in the world, proven by their statements.
  — Fox News, 19 June 2018
• That is predicated on doing more on game night than just showing up on time.
  — Kent Somers, azcentral, 22 Nov. 2019
• All of your choices are predicated on his promises to change.
  — Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 27 June 2018
• Stephens' game is predicated in large part on her speed and an ability to track down opponents' shots, over and over and over again.
  — Howard Fendrich, courant.com, 8 Sep. 2017
• The state budget is predicated on a slight increase in revenue.
  — James Salzer, ajc, 6 May 2020
• From the start, Uber’s business was predicated on breaking rules.
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2018
• This is predicated on the notion that war is the only way to stop Iran’s nuclear program.
  — Seth J. Frantzman, National Review, 4 Jan. 2020
• Stay put What the Suns do will be predicated, obviously, by what happens in front of them.
  — Scott Bordow, azcentral, 20 June 2018
• Their halfcourt offense has been predicated on spacing the floor and using drive-and-kicks.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland.com, 28 Oct. 2017
• Then, the reveal: The perfection is predicated on pain.
  — Jason Kehe, Wired, 29 Dec. 2019
• There’s plenty of risk with Cain given that his game is predicated heavily on speed, but there’s more to him than his legs.
  — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 25 Jan. 2018
• All these missions are predicated on the big booster getting back on track.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 10 Jan. 2020
• For 10 minutes, Beckham ran deep outs, curls and some double-move stops that all predicate around timing.
  — Ellis L. Williams, cleveland, 7 Aug. 2021
• Both movies are predicated on passing off a lie to preserve the Christmas spirit.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 6 Dec. 2019
• Flying cars and the like are predicated on the idea of a small footprint, so are inherently going to be fuel hogs.
  — Jeff Wise, Popular Mechanics, 1 May 2017
• So our success is often predicated just simply based on his ability, his speed, his puck control and his vision up the ice.
  — Corey Masisak, The Denver Post, 18 Feb. 2024

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predicate

3 of 3 adjective

• In “the sun is hot,” “hot” is a predicate adjective.
• The next rooms contained stacks of documents and books, along with predicate-logic equations scrawled on the walls.
  — Nimrod Nir, Newsweek, 14 Feb. 2018
• The predicate felony in Chauvin's case is third-degree assault.
  — NBC News, 3 June 2020
• So that predicate for the Mueller investigation is now very weak.
  — Fox News, 17 June 2018
• The predicate belief of the Trump administration is that fomenting disruption and chaos be done on the grandest scale.
  — Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Magazine, 15 Sep. 2017
• Right now, however, the larger goal simply has to be about establishing the predicate right to receive royalties.
  — Eriq Gardner, Billboard, 4 Apr. 2019
• If past is predicate, those explanations will not prevent Mr. Trump from blaming the central bank for any economic problems as the country heads toward the 2020 election.
  — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2019
• All the Kavanaugh coverage has been intended to undermine his tenure and lay the predicate for structural reform of the U.S. judiciary.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 21 Sep. 2019
• On the substance of the state law claims, WME argues that the unfair competition claim fails because of the defects in the predicate fiduciary duty, constructive fraud and anti-kickback claims and, once again, because the allegations are too vague.
  — Jonathan Handel, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Oct. 2019
• Remington Arms had hoped the Supreme Court would review the decision, arguing that the exception only applies when the predicate statute explicitly mentions guns and gunmakers.
  — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 12 Nov. 2019
• Traditionally, the predicate felonies for felony murder included rape, arson, mayhem, robbery, burglary, larceny, prison breach and rescue of a felon.
  — NBC News, 3 June 2020
• A predicate crime wasn’t required in order to ruin Scooter Libby’s career or send septuagenarian Joe Bonanno to prison.
  — Carl M. Cannon, Orange County Register, 18 June 2017
• Victims often dismiss other abusive tactics, such as a husband forbidding his wife from seeing her family or friends, that predicate any physical violence.
  — Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News, 9 Feb. 2018
• In “the sun is hot,” “hot” is a predicate adjective.
• The next rooms contained stacks of documents and books, along with predicate-logic equations scrawled on the walls.
  — Nimrod Nir, Newsweek, 14 Feb. 2018
• The predicate felony in Chauvin's case is third-degree assault.
  — NBC News, 3 June 2020
• So that predicate for the Mueller investigation is now very weak.
  — Fox News, 17 June 2018
• The predicate belief of the Trump administration is that fomenting disruption and chaos be done on the grandest scale.
  — Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Magazine, 15 Sep. 2017
• Right now, however, the larger goal simply has to be about establishing the predicate right to receive royalties.
  — Eriq Gardner, Billboard, 4 Apr. 2019
• If past is predicate, those explanations will not prevent Mr. Trump from blaming the central bank for any economic problems as the country heads toward the 2020 election.
  — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2019
• All the Kavanaugh coverage has been intended to undermine his tenure and lay the predicate for structural reform of the U.S. judiciary.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 21 Sep. 2019
• On the substance of the state law claims, WME argues that the unfair competition claim fails because of the defects in the predicate fiduciary duty, constructive fraud and anti-kickback claims and, once again, because the allegations are too vague.
  — Jonathan Handel, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Oct. 2019
• Remington Arms had hoped the Supreme Court would review the decision, arguing that the exception only applies when the predicate statute explicitly mentions guns and gunmakers.
  — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 12 Nov. 2019
• Traditionally, the predicate felonies for felony murder included rape, arson, mayhem, robbery, burglary, larceny, prison breach and rescue of a felon.
  — NBC News, 3 June 2020
• A predicate crime wasn’t required in order to ruin Scooter Libby’s career or send septuagenarian Joe Bonanno to prison.
  — Carl M. Cannon, Orange County Register, 18 June 2017
• Victims often dismiss other abusive tactics, such as a husband forbidding his wife from seeing her family or friends, that predicate any physical violence.
  — Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News, 9 Feb. 2018
• In “the sun is hot,” “hot” is a predicate adjective.
• The next rooms contained stacks of documents and books, along with predicate-logic equations scrawled on the walls.
  — Nimrod Nir, Newsweek, 14 Feb. 2018
• The predicate felony in Chauvin's case is third-degree assault.
  — NBC News, 3 June 2020
• So that predicate for the Mueller investigation is now very weak.
  — Fox News, 17 June 2018

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024