2000, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, xiii.
Professor Trelawney kept predicting Harry’s death, which he found extremely annoying.
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Used in the Middle of Sentence
We constructed recombinase libraries by randomly mutagenizing five residues predicted to contact DNA at positions 3–2: Leu 122, Ser 125, Arg 129, Tyr 138 and Gly 139 (Fig 6A ).
The widely predicted jeering of Aiden McGeady from the Tartan Army briefly turned to cheers when he was next to see a yellow card for a poor challenge on Fletcher.
It may be sunny today, but the weather forecast is predicting rain for tomorrow.
Used in the Ending of Sentence
The original floor was still there: wide boards, laid tongue-in-groove, not the inferior subfloor they had predicted.
Meaning of predicting for the defined word.
Grammatically, this word "predicting" is a verb, more specifically, a verb form.