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Meanings of promise in English
To state, or make something known in advance, especially using inference or special knowledge.
Synonyms
Examples for "call"
Examples for "call"
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Alexander's lecture will call for reform in Europe, not exit from Europe.
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Meat Industry Ireland members support your call for collaboration across the sector.
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Political parties said it was too quick to call the election result.
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A second call came in about 45 minutes later, Letten's statement said.
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They call themselves 'the bucket list family' for a very good reason.
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Each year, points vary and it's difficult to predict changes in advance.
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However, there is currently no clear strategy to reliably predict HDACi sensitivity.
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And right now, there's no way to predict which cases will progress.
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Analysts now predict weeks of political horse-trading to form a new cabinet.
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However, analysts predict that the markets will quickly discount the election results.
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Trump said public health experts anticipate shortages of respirators for healthcare workers.
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However, we don't anticipate a significant increase at this point in time.
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He said: I do not anticipate a great political standoff about this.
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Speculators anticipate consolidation in the sector as a result of lower business.
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Never one to lose the moment, Barry said, I don't anticipate problems.
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S&Ps changes may even foretell a coming upturn for banks, he said.
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Could push-ups foretell the future and the state of a person's heart?
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I expect the king can foretell he will have a great future.
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No one at present can foretell the outcome of the European War.
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But you can't foretell the future and you're not a mind reader.
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I might be able to forebode for France, and for its ruler.
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Yes, it surely must be the banshee, and what does it forebode?
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You, too, forebode that in this visit I may lose her forever?
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Do you now foresee, do you forebode what happened?-Yourbrother came in!-
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What these things forebode, if not disaster and ruin, 'tis hard to say.
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By the same art he would prognosticate a principality to a scoundrel.
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Send him out to prognosticate trouble to somebody, and he is happy.
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When I heard these words I did prognosticate my miserie to come.
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These criteria can be used to prognosticate and guide clinical decisions after recurrence.
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Of the mineral wealth, it seems as yet dangerous to prognosticate.
Usage of promise in English
1
Technology offers great promise with 'intelligent borders'. Hunt was educated at Oxford.
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Plans for the area hold the promise of better times to come.
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Hill House has fallen far short of its original promise, I think.
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The early signs do not offer the expected level of promise, however.
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And yet 2015 had begun with great promise for Tunisia's tourism industry.
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Others will take this responsibility seriously and actually deliver on their promise.
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I will be holding a future UK Labour government to that promise.
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There is a sense of new beginnings, new ideas and fresh promise.
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However, according to the National Lottery's figures, this promise has been broken.
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This Government came to power on a promise of openness and transparency.
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However, the government does have figures who promise to be independent outsiders.
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Best of all was the promise of job security and health insurance.
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To illegal immigrants in the state, Obama's promise is no longer enough.
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Britain and Spain pulled back almost immediately on promise of future payment.
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The results obtained show promise for the prevention of WND in Europe.
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He's unable to promise he'd unplug her; he needs time to think.
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Promise through the time
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