predictable

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But that has become the conventional wisdom, with the desired result that those responsible for the credit bubble and its predictable consequences - predictable, that is, to those who understand sound, Austrian economics - are being let off the hook.

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  1. Capable of being predicted or foretold; admitting of prediction, or determination in advance. At any particular place the direction of the [magnetic] needle is continually changing, these changes being, like the changes in the temperature of the air, in part regular and predictable, and partly lawless, so far as we can see. C. A. Young, The Sun, p. 154.

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  • The list of moral failings and misdeeds by McCain were simply in response to the asinine Mary Jo Kopechne comment (as well as the predictable, and stupid, back and forth about candidate flip-flops) and meant to convey that any politician / human being can be called to the mat for his or her behavior. —  The Ostroy Report
  • But that has become the conventional wisdom, with the desired result that those responsible for the credit bubble and its predictable consequences - predictable, that is, to those who understand sound, Austrian economics - are being let off the hook. —  Safehaven
  • If you think you can predict a non-predictable, our advice is to go to Vegas, you'll have more fun.
  • Partners imagine one another to be dull, predictable, and thereby safe. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • All very predictable, all very commendable, all very arrgghh!
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