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prediction noun

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Definition

when you say what will happen in the future
Please don't ask me to make any predictions about tomorrow's meeting.
[+ that] No one believed her prediction that the world would end on November 12.

(Definition of prediction noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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