Predict and Say

Predict

Predict verb - To tell of or describe beforehand.

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Say and predict are semantically related in forecast topic. In some cases you can use "Say" instead a verb "Predict".

Say verb - To express (a thought or emotion) in words.

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Predict and say are semantically related in estimate topic. Sometimes you can use "Predict" instead a verb "Say".

Nearby Word: saying

man	predict man	say man
people	predict people	say people
destiny	predict destiny	say destiny
number	predict number	say number
Other words: death, episode, time, card.

Though, to be fair, it's not that hard to predict that a person's reaction to being told to take a corpse to the French Riviera on vacation would be to say it was impossible...

Source: The Tape Knew You Would Say That
Thanks to her Pinkie Sense being hyperboosted by Mint-als and him being a direct descendant of her sister, she is able to predict everything he might say and record responses in accordance; rather than seeing just one future dialogue, she is aware of every possible choice.

Source: The Tape Knew You Would Say That
The news crawl actually appears at the beginning of the obligatory court scene as well, where Mentok tries to predict what it's going to say next before finally just shutting it off.

Source: Crawl

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