prognostication
the act of prognosticating.
a forecast or prediction.
Origin of prognostication
1Words Nearby prognostication
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How to use prognostication in a sentence
It’s almost as if the entire Groundhog Day industrial complex was designed to be just vague enough to make any quantitative analysis impossible, thereby preserving the rodent prognostication supremacy indefinitely.
Groundhogs Do Not Make Good Meteorologists | Simran Parwani (simran.parwani@abc.com) | February 1, 2022 | FiveThirtyEightDays after the news broke, we remain in an information vacuum, and in a prognostication whirlwind with even vaccine makers contradicting each other.
What we know and don’t know about the omicron coronavirus variant | Erin Garcia de Jesús | December 1, 2021 | Science NewsWhen we first published an interactive checking the accuracy of our various prognostications, back in April 2019, the sports world was relatively normal.
How Well Did Our Sports Predictions Hold Up During A Year Of Chaos? | Neil Paine (neil.paine@fivethirtyeight.com) | June 8, 2021 | FiveThirtyEightIn the decades since, literary fiction has scaled back on such audacious maximalism, narrowing its breadth to fit the contours of individual lives rather than sweeping prognostications of collective life.
‘Paradise, Nevada’ tries to capture our anxious American essence with a collision course through the gaming industry | Pete Tosiello | April 11, 2021 | Washington PostThere are prognostications that cities are dead, and that places like San Francisco and New York are oversaturated.
Blackstone’s Co-Head of Real Estate describes the post-pandemic office | Lucinda Shen | November 6, 2020 | Fortune
What comes next is a bit mind bending—a glimmer of autobiography disguised as fictional prognostication.
But beyond press chatter, price swings, and political prognostication, the European reaction to the storm has been limited.
This is crunch time for folks in the prognostication business.
Stu Rothenberg: Florida Holds Key to the Election | Howard Kurtz | November 2, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST“This is the problem with so much media prognostication,” Kurtz argues, before quoting none other than Jeff Toobin.
The size of the crowds took everyone—at least in the professional prognostication class—by surprise.
However, Philopoemen was not deceived in his prognostication of what would happen; for the Lacedaemonians were thoroughly routed.
The Histories of Polybius, Vol. II (of 2) | PolybiusWhen a single crow flies over you it is the sign of a funeral; two are a certain prognostication of a wedding.
Notes and Queries for Worcestershire | John NoakeIt ran sometimes straight ahead, but usually in circles, and to see it was a prognostication of death.
Animal Ghosts | Elliott O'DonnellThis is the infallible prognostication where you may foresee your endless state.
A Christian Directory (Volume 1 of 4) | Richard BaxterNumerous swims in that lake have weakened this prognostication.
Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II | W. P. Haskett Smith
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