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prognosticating

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adjective

prognosticating

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verb

present participle of prognosticate

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of prognosticating
Noun
After all the strategizing and prognosticating, what no one can predict is which films will actually connect once audiences arrive. Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026
Verb
Some 5,000 actresses were considered amid months of hysterical media prognosticating on who would wear the invisible halo next. Michael Callahan, HollywoodReporter, 11 Sep. 2026 The new rule of thumb when prognosticating about the NBA trade deadline is to never say never — Luka Doncic is a Los Angeles Laker now — but the Nuggets are just too good to mess around with their playoff rotation over a tax bill. Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 1 Feb. 2026 Bank of America Securities analyst Robert Ohmes just downgraded Target from hold to sell, prognosticating another 10-15% share drop. Noah Barsky, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for prognosticating
Noun
  • Here are previews and predictions for districts involving Fort Worth-area teams.
    Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Sep. 2026
  • For decades, astronomers studying the surroundings of the Milky Way have determined there are too few dwarf satellite galaxies orbiting our own galaxy when compared to predictions made by the standard model of cosmology.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 17 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • His point is that although LLMs, no less than chess engines and other specialist systems, are trained on a specific task—namely, predicting the next word in a text passage—that task is special.
    George Musser, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2026
  • The Sudan Doctors Network, a medical group tracking the war in Sudan, reported earlier that 67 bodies were pulled from the rubble, predicting that the death toll could increase as rescuers continued their search.
    Yasir Abdallah, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Senior vice president of strategy and client success Benjamin Bond has joined its Fresh Food Leadership Council, where his work will include forecasting, food waste and visibility across fresh-food operations.
    Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Agricultural production technologies and weather forecasting capabilities have also improved substantially, all of which could help the market absorb part of the supply shocks.
    , CNBC, 3 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Pantone grouped 20 of the new shades into four trend palettes demonstrating how its forecast for bolder color can take several markedly different forms.
    Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 16 Sep. 2026
  • The rainout alters those plans, particularly with Wednesday’s forecast in Omaha putting that game in question, too.
    Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 16 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • House of the Dragon, meanwhile, specified that the prophecy was about a Targaryen ruler who would unite Westeros against a coming darkness from the far north.
    Rafael Motamayor, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Mandel's futuristic story of a world ravaged by a lethal flu virus was already a bestseller and National Book Award finalist six years before the coronavirus pandemic gave it the unwanted status of prophecy.
    ABC News, ABC News, 14 Sep. 2026

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“Prognosticating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prognosticating. Accessed 20 Sep. 2026.

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