Example Sentences

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But investors should avoid jumping to conclusions, and not only because those who have prognosticated bitcoin’s demise have been wrong in the past.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026

There has been much sport made in New England of the pundits, both national and local, who have prognosticated the team’s demise, going back several years, only to be left looking foolish.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 4, 2019

The wizards of Japan have prognosticated great events to arise from these comets, but hitherto nothing material has occurred, excepting the deposition of Frushma-tay, already related.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Kerr, Robert

The sudden success of the work is not, we think, what any one could have prognosticated.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various

Therefore the sun cannot be molten or liquid at its surface, as the scientific guessers have prognosticated.

From The Universe a Vast Electric Organism by Warder, George Woodward