prognosticated

past tense of prognosticate

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Recent Examples of prognosticated Every year there’s at least one rising artist who gets a substantially bigger bonanza of nominations than anyone had prognosticated, and this year that artist is Leon Thomas. Chris Willman, Variety, 7 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for prognosticated
predicted
Verb
  • On the other side of the supply-and-demand scale, consumers’ appetite for oil fell substantially more over the past few months than just about anyone predicted.
    David Goldman, CNN Money, 25 June 2026
  • Syria was always an aspiration, but few could have predicted how quickly the Assad regime would collapse or how rapidly the country would shift from an Iran-Russia orbit toward one increasingly aligned with the West and Gulf states.
    Mohammed Sergie, semafor.com, 24 June 2026

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“Prognosticated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prognosticated. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.

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