Synonyms for prediction
prɪˈdɪk ʃənpre·dic·tion

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1. prediction

   Synonyms:
   prophecy, prognostication, vaticination, foreannouncement, premonstration, foretelling, forebodement, presage, augury, foreshowing

   Antonyms:
   narration, relation, history, account, report

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1. prediction, anticipation, previsionnoun

   the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future)

   Synonyms:
   anticipation, expectancy, prescience, expectation, farsightedness, foretelling, prognostication, foresight, prevision, prospicience, forecasting

2. prediction, foretelling, forecasting, prognosticationnoun

   a statement made about the future

   Synonyms:
   prophecy, anticipation, fortune telling, vaticination, divination, omen, portent, foretelling, prognostication, prognostic, prevision, prodigy, forecasting, soothsaying, presage

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1. predictionnoun

   Synonyms:
   prophecy, prognostication, augury, foreboding, vaticination, divination, soothsaying, foretelling

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1. predictionnoun

   Synonyms:
   prophecy, soothsaying, divination, augury, prognostication

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1. List of paraphrases for "prediction":

   forecasting, forecast, predicting, anticipation, predictions, forecasts, predictor, prognosis, prevision, predict, projection, projections, prophecy, foresight

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1. Brett Adams:

   The prediction that high water was coming wasn't too concerning, we've never had water go over the levee. But two days later, we learned the river was going to rise 15 feet and it was full panic attack.

2. Charles King:

   An interesting point about the technologies used by the Allied forces during D-Day is how closely their development mirrors approaches used today, there were formal projects led by trained scientists and researchers, such as the tide prediction mechanism created by British mathematician Arthur Thomas Doodson, which was used toidentify the precise days/times that the H-Hour landings for D-Day should take place.

3. Mike McCaul:

   My prediction is you're going to see Russia invading Ukraine in the next month.

4. Catherine McGuinness:

   I think we’ll stay the FX capital of the world - that would be my prediction, we are very confident in London’s basic strengths and that we will make up business elsewhere.

5. Christopher Granville:

   My prediction would be that both the funds would be fully drawn down between now and the 2018 election - leaving Russia at the mercy (after that) of the markets, that will require another round of yet more painful decisions. But they will face those over the hump of the political cycle, with no more elections.