Synonyms for predictor
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1. forecaster, predictor, prognosticator, soothsayernoun

   someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the basis of special knowledge)

   Synonyms:
   forecaster, prognosticator, soothsayer

2. predictornoun

   information that supports a probabilistic estimate of future events

   "the weekly bulletin contains several predictors of mutual fund performance"

   Synonyms:
   forecaster, prognosticator, soothsayer

3. predictornoun

   a computer for controlling antiaircraft fire that computes the position of an aircraft at the instant of a shell's arrival

   Synonyms:
   forecaster, prognosticator, soothsayer

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1. predictornoun

   Synonyms:
   foreteller, prophet, seer, vaticinator

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1. List of paraphrases for "predictor":

   predictive, prediction, indicator, index

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1. Stan Humphries:

   Coffee houses emerged early on as a big predictor of future home value. Within a quarter mile, close enough to smell the coffee brewing, that ring appreciates faster than rings further out.

2. Kevin Ching:

   This goes to prove that ... the general economy is not a predictor of the art market.

3. Robert Eckel:

   Based on the observation of data, I think, ultimately, one can't be overly conclusive about it, but it does again validate some other studies indicating diabetes is a predictor for outcome, older males do worse. I think the obesity factor enters in now and makes this increasingly an important factor.

4. Anthony Fauci:

   Some people in this country are going to be able to have a relatively normal type of a Thanksgiving, but in other areas of the country, it's going to be,' You better hold off and maybe just have immediate family, and make sure you do it in a way that people wear masks, and you don't have large crowds of people,' what we're starting to see now -- and we can't run away from it -- we're starting to see in the Midwest and the Northwest, an uptick in test positivity, which tends to be a predictor that you're going to have surges.

5. Art Caplan:

   Hospitals generally do not take into account why a gravely ill patient is there, the way in which it might become relevant is if you thought it was a predictor of a bad outcome.