prognostications

plural of prognostication

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Recent Examples of prognostications Also in March — to a rising din of dire prognostications about De Luca and Abdy’s tenure as co-chairpersons/chief executives — Warner punted the release of One Battle After Another (from the financial doldrums of August into its current date smack in the middle of the awards-season scrum). Chris Lee, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2025 And earlier this month, Ellison briefly became the richest person in the world, eclipsing Elon Musk, as Oracle’s stock exploded on its prognostications for its booming AI business. Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2025 Every new season marks an opportunity for new opinions and prognostications. Peter Baugh, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2025 But the national prognostications for Miami seem especially pessimistic after last season’s 8-9 record followed four consecutive winning seasons. Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 4 Sep. 2025 That embrace continued just days before the NFL season begins with predictions and prognostications galore. Tim Crowley, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025 Most experts’ prognostications are substantially shorter than that. James Barrat, Big Think, 2 Sep. 2025 What's mucking up the process is a telepathic outlier named The Mule (Pilou Asbæk), whose ravenous appetite for galactic dominance has created anomalies in Seldon's branching prognostications of how this whole ordeal will unfold. Jeff Spry, Space.com, 29 Aug. 2025 Even as someone who sniffed out the KPop Demon Hunters explosion fairly early, the soundtrack has blown away all of my prognostications. Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 26 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for prognostications
Noun
  • Generic predictions include the same initial temperature everywhere, with a spectrum of seed fluctuations imprinted atop it that are Gaussian in nature and almost, but not quite, identical across cosmic scales.
    Big Think, Big Think, 22 Oct. 2025
  • In gerneral, meteorologists tend to eschew making predictions more than a few days out.
    Frank Witsil, Freep.com, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • These premonitions lead her and Fin to Alpine Lake, the site of a Christian winter camp in the Rocky Mountains.
    Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Many are anticipating words of wisdom or premonitions from Masaryk, perhaps a warning about the impending war or the threat coming from Russia.
    Jack Guy, CNN Money, 17 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Intel expects adjusted earnings per share to come in at 8 cents, meeting current forecasts.
    Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2025
  • And while the government shutdown has put several key economic indicators on hold, the Labor Department released the consumer price index for September, which ticked higher but came in below forecasts.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • When and how this messianic revolution would come about was up for debate and speculation, but large segments of the population, based on specific prophecies in the Hebrew Bible, believed that the time was at hand.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Back in June, a South African YouTube show about religious prophecies and visions featured an interview with a guest named Joshua Mhlakela.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Here’s hoping for a future in which pursuing the uncertain feels feasible again.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Clearly feeling all the feels this week, the conservationist dipped further into the family photo album on show day, sharing more pics from childhood through to today while dedicating that night’s dance to his mom.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The Panama City Police Department encourages people and adoption agencies to report any fraud suspicions.
    Julia Marnin, Miami Herald, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Congressional Republicans called the expenditure wasteful and the secretive project fueled more suspicions about its necessity, according to the historical association.
    Bart Jansen, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025

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“Prognostications.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prognostications. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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