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predictable
[pri-dik-tuh-buhl]
adjective
able to be foretold or declared in advance.
New technology allows predictable weather forecasting.
expected, especially on the basis of previous or known behavior.
His complaints are so predictable.
Other 51Թ Forms
- predictably adverb
- nonpredictable adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of predictable1
Example Sentences
Sen Alex Padilla at a Los Angeles news conference, leaders of the country’s two political parties responded in what has become a predictable fashion — with diametrically opposed takes on the incident.
Wilson said the album would be a “teenage symphony to God,” a piece of music so audacious it would unlock the straitjacket he felt was keeping pop music bland and predictable.
Recent editions of the clay-court Grand Slam tournament have been rather predictable.
These films are criminally boring, as in, I believe there should be legal ramifications for making movies where Jason Statham wears a wetsuit and hunts giant, brutal, prehistoric predators so exhausting and utterly predictable.
Frenk also said that federal legislation was needed “to create a much more predictable model” for football and men’s basketball, controlling expenses while propping up the rest of an athletic department.
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