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• v  make a prediction about; tell in advance
• v  indicate by signs

• Dutch researchers are developing a blood test that could predict the onset of menopause and the decline of fertility.
• It's called a prediction market, based on the notion that a marketplace is a better organizer of insight and predictor of the future than individuals are.
• If you think you can predict what you will like, think again.

• foretell
• prognosticate
• call
• forebode
• anticipate
• promise
• bode
• portend
• auspicate
• omen
• presage
• betoken
• foreshadow
• augur
• prefigure
• forecast

News & Articles

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• Blood Tests May Predict COPD Flare-Ups
  Title: Blood Tests May Predict COPD Flare-Ups Category: Health News Created: 6/11/2013 4:36:00 PM Last Editorial Review: 6/12/2013 12:00:00 AM
  June 13, 2013 - MedicineNet.com
• Gene variants may predict who will benefit from breast cancer prevention drugs
  In women at high risk for breast cancer, a long-term drug treatment can cut the risk of developing the disease in half. Researchers have identified two gene variants that may predict which women are most likely to benefit from this therapy.
  June 13, 2013 - Science Daily
• To Predict the Next Box Office Hit, Look at Google Movie Trailer Searches
  In a new whitepaper released today Google reveals how searches for movie trailers can help more accurately predict their opening weekend box office revenue.        
  June 12, 2013 - Wired News

Quotes

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• John McCain in International Herald Tribune
  Not content to merely predict failure in Iraq, my opponent tried to legislate failure,McCain said.
• Robert Gates in Reuters Blogs (blog)
  The secrets were things that were ultimately knowable,Gates said. "The mysteries were those where there were too many variables to predict."
• Hillary Rodham Clinton in Times Online
  We have no way to predict what the future with our relations concerning Syria might be,Mrs Clinton said.