- present participle of forecast.
forecasting
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forecastings
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However, long-range forecasting is fraught with uncertainty and while the season as a whole may be mild, some chilly interludes are also anticipated.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
Last year, Nardi and Mazzini also published research forecasting an increase in MHWs along the U.S.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
Fed officials themselves are currently forecasting only one additional hike this year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
Analysts are forecasting the August headline personal consumption expenditures price index to rise 0.4% month over month from 0.2% in July, while remaining unchanged at 3.7% year over year.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 27, 2026
Some pundits, not just from the Soviet Union, were forecasting Tal to be the winner.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
Although the attitude of Canadian weathermen towards their U. S. collaborators continued warm, their forecastings were cloudy, omitted any mention of barometric pressure.
From Time Magazine Archive
He tastes the pleasures of ambition—pleasures full of vague forecastings and long, long hopes.
From Child Life In Town And Country 1909 by A. R. (Alfred Richard) Allinson
In all his forecastings he had never pictured a homecoming remotely resembling the fact.
From The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush by Francis Lynde
Some of them read more like a book of travels in this world than forecastings of the next.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII by Alexander Maclaren
Little thought Mary of any of the speculations that busied the friendly head of Miss Prissy, or that lay in the provident forecastings of her prudent mother.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 by Various
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