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While everyone else is prognosticating about the likely winners of the Academy Awards, we at The Envelope like to take a moment to use the past to help predict the future.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2026

“If anybody is prognosticating doom and gloom, I think they are premature,” said Ken Jones, the chief executive officer and president of the 2012 Tampa Bay Host Committee.

From New York Times • Aug. 24, 2012

What Botello prophesied concerning Narvaez, is very remarkable; yet, when a man is prognosticating all his life, it is hard if he do not sometimes blunder upon the truth.

From Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico by Bird, Robert Montgomery