(1) These results indicated that the PG determination was the most accurate predictor of fetal lung well-being prior to birth among the clinical tests so far reported.
(2) The strongest predictor of non-sudden cardiac death was the New York Heart Association functional class.
(3) Importantly, these characteristics were strong predictors of subsequent mortality.
(4) The quantity of social ties, the quality of relationships as modified by type of intimate, and the baseline level of symptoms measured five years earlier were significant predictors of psychosomatic symptoms among this sample of women.
(5) Gross deformity, point tenderness and decrease in supination and pronation movements of the forearm were the best predictors of bony injury.
(6) Size of household was the most important predictor of both the total level of household food expenditures and the per person level.
(7) This study concludes that grade is the greatest predictor of survival, with only 37% of grade 3 patients surviving at 5 years.
(8) Although chronologic age may not be a good predictor of pregnancy outcome, adolescents remain a high-risk group due to factors which are more common among them such as biologic immaturity, inadequate prenatal care, poverty, minority status, and low prepregnancy weight, and because factors associated with an early adolescent pregnancy, such as low gynecologic age, may continue to influence the outcome of subsequent pregnancies.
(9) In subsequent experiments, both components were found to be significant and additive predictors of face recognition with no residual effect of typicality.
(10) Sensitivity and specificity were enhanced when we linked multiple predictors, but this linkage was seldom successful because few patients had more than one positive predictor.
(11) Multivariate analysis of high risk factors associated with increased risk of asphyxia showed that low birth weight was the most significant predictor of asphyxia: asphyxia occurred in 68% of infants of less than 1,000 g birth weight and decreased to 1.2% in infants of 3-4 kg birth weight.
(12) The single best predictor of EI was BW (r2 = 0.47, p = 0.0001), and further small but significant contributions were made by BMC (r2 = 0.53, p = 0.0001) and grip strength (r2 = 0.55, p = 0.0001).
(13) These results suggest that demonstration of leukoattractants in amniotic fluid is an earlier and more sensitive predictor of chorioamnionitis than is presently available.
(14) Correlations between measures of learning style and academic performance yielded low, nonsignificant positive correlations and were found to be inadequate predictors of academic performance.
(15) Functional status on admission measured by the Katz ADL was the most powerful predictor of functional status at discharge.
(16) These results confirm that both tests are useful predictors, but their strengths and weaknesses must be understood.
(17) Utilizing standardized instruments, family and demographic predictors of general and problem-solving knowledge pertaining to diabetes were identified in 53 newly diagnosed children.
(18) There are statistically significant correlations between plasma triglycerides and predictors of fatness, particularly in the body, both in men and women.
(19) The stage of a given malignancy, representing the degree of spread of the tumor to its local surroundings or distant sites, is the best predictor of long-term survival.
(20) Informal support and knowing one's HIV status are strong predictors of condom use 1 year later.
Soothsayer
Definition:
(n.) One who foretells events by the art of soothsaying; a prognosticator.
(n.) A mantis.
Example Sentences:
(1) There are bad days, increasingly so for them, but then there are days like this that break new boundaries of cataclysmic play and make those of us who predicted a close series seem like end-of-the-pier charlatan soothsayers.
(2) Variations in the strength of recovery in different world regions led advertising industry soothsayer Sir Martin Sorrell to grasp for ever stranger soundbites, with the idea of a "LuVVy"-shaped global recovery his most elaborate effort.
(3) Soothsayer or not, he never imagined the pink pound would become legal tender.
(4) But analysts such as Silver, a man dubbed an oracle , a soothsayer and a savant have an interest in continuing to share these predictions.
(5) Thai authorities confirmed on Monday that a colonel in the military was also being investigated in the same inquiry as the soothsayer, but he had absconded.
(6) He thinks we shouldn't get on with cutting waste this year … I don't see him as some economic soothsayer, frankly."
(7) The actor and writer Carrie Fisher has many talents but soothsaying appears not to be among them.
(8) She says: "The soothsayers and tea-leaves readers and the so-called experts can look at coalitions, but our job is to make sure we are offering a big choice for a majority government."
(9) And then when they heard that the crowd had arrived, like a carnival with every malcontent and half-crazed soothsayer following in its wake, Martha went out into the streets to announce her brother's death to my son.
(10) Iain Duncan Smith dismissed “another doom-and-gloom scenario” from an organisation “that simply hasn’t got anything right”; his fellow pro-Brexit MP Jacob Rees-Mogg said the OBR had made “lunatic assumptions” and that “experts, soothsayers, astrologers are all in much the same category”.
(11) Thai authorities said Suriyan Sucharitpolwong, better known by his soothsayer name Mor Yong, died of a blood infection on Saturday evening, hours after he was found unconscious in his cell at a Bangkok army barracks.
(12) The so-called “evil cult” has been wreaking havoc countrywide, if state media reports are to be believed – distributing leaflets, soothsaying into megaphones, attacking police stations and extorting “donations” from gullible peasants.
(13) But just as the soothsayers who cook up future prospects from experience of the recent past had got used to peering back into gloom, reality overtook them again, and all the adjustments are now in the other direction.
(14) Google in particular preoccupies advertising's economic soothsayer.
(15) On the evidence of the first 100 days, that’s a question beyond the most talented soothsayer, but as the days pass, maybe word will emerge of a plan.
(16) Experts, soothsayers, astrologers are all in much the same category.” This is classic Rees-Mogg.
(17) Set in the 1920s, it stars Colin Firth as a magician who is sent to France to debunk the practices of Emma Stone's beguiling spiritualist – but the accuracy of her soothsaying and her impressive trickery have his cynicism challenged.
(18) On stage he looks nothing like the laconic soothsayer of a few hours ago; now he's every bit the magnetic frontman, pulling messianic poses with arms outstretched and head flung back.
(19) Turns out the soothsayers were mistaken: the Sun isn't dying, it's expanding.