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predicating

verb

present participle of predicate

as in basing

to find a basis she has predicated her theory on recent findings by other astronomers

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Recent Examples of predicating With everyone predicating their behavior on everyone else’s, norms shift rapidly, and complicated feedback effects ensue. — Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025

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basing

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In monitoring potential large basing patterns over the last few weeks, Spotify has continued to pop up on our radar screens.

— Frank Cappelleri, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2026
Overall, Red Sea basing to date has focused more on crisis response in East Africa, countering and competing against Russia and China.

— Paul Tilsley, FOXNews.com, 12 Aug. 2026

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