His prediction made him the butt of jokes in some quarters, until Amazon hit $400 a few weeks later.

I presume that by making anonymous predictions makes you feel like a high roller.

The prediction makes this election too close to call.

You hate to be reactionary after one game, make some wacky prediction about a series that has at least three games left.

Not a very hard prediction to make either, it was, as you said, not the bench that needed a change the most.

But now, the American predictions had made that impossible.

If the underlying mechanism is not understood, then any predictions made could well turn out to be wrong.

The prediction makes a claim that is impossible to verify or falsify.

And then he didn't slip, didn't make a false prediction.

He is crazy in some ways, yet makes predictions that are important to the solving of the murder.