How to Use predictive in a Sentence

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• A lot of the predictive models say Ohio State should score in the mid-30s, and at first that sounded reasonable to me.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 21 Oct. 2022
• The problem is that weak ties go down the tubes, and those are the most predictive thing for innovation.
  — Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2023
• Central blood pressure, or the pressure in the aorta—which sends blood from the heart out to the body—is a predictive measure of heart disease and stroke.
  — Cynthia Sass, Mph, Rd, Health, 20 Nov. 2023
• But for now, researchers say, the predictive power of the principle seems to be holding up quite well.
  — Quanta Magazine, 13 Dec. 2021
• One metric that has shown some predictive success is the U.S. Treasury yield curve.
  — Raul Elizalde, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2024
• But the great upsets of years past are also reminders that there are limits to the predictive power of a New Hampshire vote.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2024
• Polls six months, five months, even closer to the election have zero predictive value.
  — Elizabeth Beyer, USA TODAY, 8 May 2024
• The yield curve has predictive power that other markets don’t.
  — New York Times, 21 July 2022
• In comparison, the total number of small meals was predictive of weight loss over time.
  — Jennifer Miao, ABC News, 18 Jan. 2023
• The predictive power of AI can detect trends and eruptions, and human intelligence can then connect the dots — the best of both worlds.
  — Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 22 Feb. 2024
• To the extent that national polling is strongly predictive of battleground-state polling, this wouldn't be the biggest deal.
  — Tommy Barone, ABC News, 11 July 2024
• At the end of the day, an individual’s zip code is more predictive of their health outcomes than their genetic code.
  — Ashley Tyrner, Fortune, 2 June 2023
• The same problems will likely plague the use of aseismic movement for predictive purposes, Jones says.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 20 July 2023
• Both studies used predictive language models to help guess words in sentences.
  — Pam Belluck, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2023
• The technology is a predictive algorithm that scrapes the web to calculate the most likely response to queries.
  — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Sep. 2023
• Ryland impressed the judges by using numbers and letters to perform a predictive form of magic.
  — Isabelle Butera, USA TODAY, 6 July 2023
• As a result, the balloon’s launch site will be chosen by predictive modeling, based on wind speed and direction.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2024
• In fact, the villainous Ritter (Bryan Cranston) wants to catch Elly since her spy novels have proven to be predictive of actual global events.
  — Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 4 Feb. 2024
• This will bring hands-free lane changing, predictive speed assist, and in-lane repositioning.
  — Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica, 21 Oct. 2022
• Standards are also lacking on how much evidence is needed to prove that a predictive test is good enough to be used routinely in the clinic.
  — David Ewing Duncan, Scientific American, 7 Dec. 2022
• So there’s a very strong pressure to believe whatever these vendors are saying about their predictive tools.
  — Quanta Magazine, 10 Mar. 2023
• By 1715, with the first solar eclipse in many centuries approaching London, Halley’s predictive map was a mashup of ancient and modern ways of thinking.
  — Joshua Sokol, Quanta Magazine, 5 Apr. 2024
• The predictive abilities of EKGs have been honed over time, and now, the same diagnostic ability is being used on a mass scale to process large amounts of data faster than any human could.
  — Rachel Murphy, Verywell Health, 18 Nov. 2023
• Edwards says that predictive policing—using analytics to try and guess where metal thieves will strike next—could help.
  — Chris Baraniuk, WIRED, 20 Feb. 2024
• Inputs at the edge are critical to the efficacy of a predictive maintenance plan.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023
• Increasingly, voters also believe Harris can win — a measure that in the past has sometimes proved more predictive than head-to-head polling.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2024
• The questionnaire has previously been found to be a predictive measure of health for people with heart failure, said Golbus.
  — Brian Mastroianni, Health, 15 Aug. 2023
• These predictive analytics are conquering more and more spheres of life.
  — Carissa Véliz, Wired, 27 Dec. 2021
• The current rule relies heavily on predictive models, which can come up short, some scientists say.
  — Byapril Reese, science.org, 16 Feb. 2023
• These early findings align with theories that deep concentration can short-circuit the brain’s predictive mechanisms—leading to vivid, direct experience as mental chatter falls away.
  — By Naina Bajekal / Applegate, Calif., TIME, 7 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Oct 2024