as in to predict
to tell of or describe beforehand
if he could really vaticinate the course of the stock market, he'd be rich enough to own Manhattan
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Oregon, Virginia, Nevada and Louisiana are among the states predicted by the KFF to experience the biggest drop in Medicaid enrolment should the cuts happen, as the map above shows.—
Matt Robison,
Newsweek,
25 Feb. 2025 -
Minimizing that risk sometimes allowed U.S. adversaries to predict and even dictate the tempo of these interactions.—
HAL BRANDS,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Feb. 2025
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Learning to read those cues wasn't just a neutral process.—
Rebekah Taussig,
TIME,
24 Feb. 2025
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See the full list and read the stories of the women on it here.—
Jacob Pramuk,
CNBC,
24 Feb. 2025
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Nor had the West anticipated that the Houthis in Yemen, a supposedly ragtag militia that had received a large arsenal of missiles from Tehran, would be capable of bringing global shipping in the Red Sea to a near standstill.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Feb. 2025
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Entering what many anticipate to be one of the closest F1 seasons ever, making sense of the three days of preseason running in Bahrain could be especially difficult.—
Luke Smith,
The Athletic,
25 Feb. 2025
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“Vaticinate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vaticinate. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.
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