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Recent Examples of predictable
The results were predictable, with delays and longer wait times.
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Brady Knox, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 20 Dec. 2024
What happened with Tennessee two years ago wasn’t predictable, either.
—John Adams, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
The top five songs this week are predictable year after year, but a few newer songs are making a play to join in on the annual holiday playlist.
—Brittney Melton, NPR, 19 Dec. 2024
Traditionally, Republicans have been more amenable to the needs of business, but their behavior is less predictable at a time when populism is winning votes.
—Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 18 Dec. 2024
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Brady Knox, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 20 Dec. 2024
What happened with Tennessee two years ago wasn’t predictable, either.
—John Adams, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
The top five songs this week are predictable year after year, but a few newer songs are making a play to join in on the annual holiday playlist.
—Brittney Melton, NPR, 19 Dec. 2024
Traditionally, Republicans have been more amenable to the needs of business, but their behavior is less predictable at a time when populism is winning votes.
—Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 18 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for predictable
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On the other side, Nebraska faces off against fellow Big Ten titan Penn State in a clash of familiar foes.Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
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This northside Japanese steakhouse serves familiar Japanese and Japanese-American dishes like tempura, katsu, hot pot, sushi and hibachi dishes.Bradley Hohulin, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Dec. 2024
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Advertisement The indictment is more a window into routine municipal politics than the stuff of an international spy thriller.Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2024
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But this didn’t quite seem right, since Trump’s continued calls for Congress to lift the debt ceiling—a change that would end the routine brinkmanship over government shutdowns that the House G.O.P. now stages—signalled a different agenda from that of Musk and his allies.Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2024
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Based on the data, the researchers found a link between habitual daytime napping and larger brain volume.Caitlin Pagán, Verywell Health, 4 Dec. 2024
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Yet perhaps the original, enduring impulse that gave us habitual millennial-shaming, which has lately given way to 24/7 zoomer-shaming, represents a kind of honest concern.Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 21 Nov. 2024
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These strategies are now unremarkable enough to be taught to kids in schools.Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2024
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The trip is really propaganda, meant to support’s Japan’s colonial expansion policy, and the naive Aoyama sends home a series of unremarkable essays to be published in Mainland Japanese papers.Irina Dumitrescu, The Dial, 27 Nov. 2024
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Thai immigration officials said visitor numbers from Myanmar were unexceptional.Jintamas Saksornchai, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2024
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Such peculiarity encourages reconsideration of this otherwise unexceptional comedy.Armond White, National Review, 23 Oct. 2024
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The two drive through a classic American landscape with Roan's parents in the backseat.Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 17 Dec. 2024
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But the rest of this list comprise true sailing vessels, many with classic lines and others employing modern racing and cruising designs to the fullest.Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 16 Dec. 2024
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“Predictable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/predictable. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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