prognosticator
a person who forecasts or predicts something future from present indications or signs; prophet: Maybe this faltering team can somehow defy the prognosticators and experts and make the playoffs.
something that is a sign or indicator of a coming event: The woolly bear caterpillars and other prognosticators of winter suggest we will have a more normal one this year.
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How to use prognosticator in a sentence
The strange offseason was just the first shock to the prognosticating system.
Losing Money Betting On College Football This Year? You’re Not Alone. | Richard Johnson | December 16, 2020 | FiveThirtyEightOne Washington prognosticator, however, stands above the rest.
Dick Morris: World's Worst Political Pundit? | Noah Kristula-Green | August 9, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTHe is," said political prognosticator Charlie Cook, "gregarious and cunning.
Behavior is just not the reliable prognosticator we imagine it to be.
He considered himself a prognosticator; and, what was more unfortunate, some eminent persons really thought he was.
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 (of 3) | Isaac Disraeli
The Mole has long been recorded as a prognosticator of change of weather, before which it becomes very active.
Eccentricities of the Animal Creation. | John TimbsTwo suns shone in the sky, prognosticator of still deeper frost.
The Conquest | Eva Emery Dye"My husband is a weather prognosticator," commented his wife, humorously.
The Forged Note | Oscar MicheauxWhen the patchwork of mentalities was complete he allowed the conclusions of the prognosticator to occupy his mind.
The Honored Prophet | William E. Bentley
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