“Consider, for example, the scope of the authority Mary believes the love-charm affords her and what, in the end, that authority is predicated upon.”

“If a visitor from another planet could see human life in its higher developments, the last thing he would predicate of a race that claims to be rational would be war.”

“Their reach for notoriety predicated on that fulsome mediocrity of talent detailed above has become frozen in their faces.”

“Today, the enterprise of spreading the gospel of free markets is predicated on the iron fist of overwhelming American military power.”

“Alienated from their surroundings, these youths are chilling totems of a society predicated on division.”

“All such propositions must involve reference to some individual and predicating some property of that individual.”

“By predicating a First Cause, however, the theist103 removes the mystery a stage further back.”

“In the simplest case — a monadic predication — the proposition will be the act of predicating a property of an object.”