Definitions
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- adverb In a manner that can be
expected oranticipated .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a predictable manner or to a predictable degree
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Examples
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They play off each other perfectly, yet predictably is all I am saying. melissa
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Each character has a role to play and they all play it well, but they play it very predictably is all I was saying and there does not seem to be very much deviation from week to week.
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Tiger Woods, predictably, is one of two golfers in the top 25 — at No. 17.
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And Stupid, predictably, is too dishonest to admit that he has been paying despots to kill people his entire life, and that he thinks that doing so is just swell! joe from Lowell says:
Matthew Yglesias » Conservatives Don’t Care About the Deficit 2010
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Finally, this approach predictably is going to piss people off, not only those who are part of the problem, but many others in the community as well.
Threats to school reform ... are within school reform Valerie Strauss 2010
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The phrase predictably spills out, a confession of anxiety and defeat.
Wayne Muller: Getting Caught Up ... to What? Wayne Muller 2010
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To once again predictably finger, like Mr. Gioia before you, who appears in your landmark anthology _Rebel Angels_, in his essay Can Poetry Matter?,
More Academic Bashing: The Kids Want More : Major Jackson : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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A Theology of Culture, the use of the word predictably diversifies as it is applied to very different ways of affecting the environment, including our imaginative and intellectual work on the environment, creating 'culture' in the modern sense of mental and artistic sophistication.
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A Theology of Culture, the use of the word predictably diversifies as it is applied to very different ways of affecting the environment, including our imaginative and intellectual work on the environment, creating 'culture' in the modern sense of mental and artistic sophistication.
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A Theology of Culture, the use of the word predictably diversifies as it is applied to very different ways of affecting the environment, including our imaginative and intellectual work on the environment, creating 'culture' in the modern sense of mental and artistic sophistication.
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