- present participle of forecast.
forecasting
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forecastings
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Their conclusion: “Human-made forecasting is still the best way to go, and even that is still wrong.”
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
"We should be clear that this is an unprecedented event", said Prof Adam Scaife, head of long-range forecasting at the UK Met Office.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
In his first year as Honest’s CFO, Curtiss Bruce strengthened the company’s consumer-packaged-goods capabilities by hiring talent with expertise in areas including sales forecasting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Such monitoring could improve space weather forecasting and contribute to safer, more dependable satellite operations in the future.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026
“I am Dr. Karlsson, and I work with the Level Fours who have forecasting marvels. But Headmarveller Rivera asked me to speak to you. Can you tell me a bit about the things you knit?”
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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
Its writers had too much to do, and too much besides to think about, for undue occupation with pensive remembrances or imaginative forecastings.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts by Alexander Maclaren
In forecastings of this order, therefore, Davis exercised himself.
From Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Charles James Lever
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
Beyond question it was all very different, strikingly different, from his forecastings.
From The Price by Francis Lynde
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