forecasting
noun
the act of making predictions about the future based on currently available information.
forecastings
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pluralof forecasting.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
And then some motherly forecastings of her daughter's future, kindly counsel where she could offer any, and affectionate prayers for the guidance of God where the future was too dark for her to penetrate.
From The Personal Life of David Livingstone by William Garden Blaikie
It is unexplored territory, too difficult for the present writer, and must be left to the forecastings of the better informed.
From What Not A Prophetic Comedy by Dame Rose Macaulay
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
Between the two of them, however, there was this one essential difference: Scott's forecastings were vague and rosy dreams, Catie's were concrete plans.
From The Brentons by Wilson C. Dexter
