forecast
verb (used with object)
to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance.
had forecast
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past perfectof forecast.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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American employers added 162,000 workers to payrolls in August, roughly three times the number that economists had forecast.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Comparable sales, which account for store openings and closings, rose 3.5%, topping the 2.6% increase that analysts had forecast and reflecting growth in both traffic and average transaction amount.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Revenue for the quarter ending July 26 rose 106 percent from a year earlier and 18 percent from the previous three months, comfortably above the roughly $92 billion analysts had forecast.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
The European Commission had forecast growth of 1.1%, while the IMF expected the euro area to grow by around 0.9%.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Long ago, so it seemed, he had forecast the design and the method of its execution.
From The Vision of Elijah Berl by Frank Lewis Nason
