8 sentences with “predictable”

Due to the lunar cycle, tides have a predictable behavior.

When medieval male writers bothered to write about women, they generally did so with predictable misogyny.

Time eases our suffering. There are times of sadness. Times of anger. Times of tranquillity. Times of hope. But they do not follow one another in a predictable way. At least not for those in crisis.

One of the effects of the scientific discoveries of the 16th century was the growing belief that the universe itself operated according to regular, predictable, "mechanical" laws that could be described through mathematics.

Quantum theory, developed by physicists in the 1920s, further challenges the Newtonian concept of the predictable universe, arguing that the subatomic particles of matter behave unpredictably, so that the universe, at its deepest level, operates in an indeterminate way.

Some moths, for example, zigzag erratically from left to right without following any predictable trajectory, others dive into a swoop but do helical spins, and then there are the genius moths, which loop around and position themselves on the tail of the bat, whose wake they begin to follow, undetectable and surely deadpan.

Until the late 19th century, scientists accepted Sir Isaac Newton's concept of a "mechanically precise universe", an orderly and logical place where everything from the fall of an apple to the orbit of the Moon around the Earth happens in a predictable way. The stars hung fixed in space, eternal and unchanging, held in place by the force of gravity.

In many schools, where the way they function is like a large cog in a wheel, where behaviour is predictable as a way of avoiding conflict, there is also no room for innovation, since any modification would increase the risk of lack of control. Unrest, in these cases, circulates through informal channels in the form of rumours, and leads to a decrease in the quality of school achievement.