prognostications

plural of prognostication

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of prognostications 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
  • Tropical weather experts at Colorado State University echo these predictions, saying overall atmospheric conditions, including wind patterns, will shift in a manner that supports a notable increase in activity.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 10 Sep. 2025
  • His predictions are not intended to be relied upon as a forecast of actual future events or performance or investment advice.
    Jeffrey Schulze, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Indeed, their many years together reveal themselves as the vital heart of Romano’s own artistic output, as scattered throughout these pages appear pieces of her earlier books and, especially, poems, which come to assume the aura of dreamlike premonitions.
    Brian Robert Moore September 5, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025
  • But with Wednesday still having premonitions and dangers still lurking around Jericho, a little help from the dead might be in order.
    Andrew McGowan, Variety, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • As always with space weather, forecasts carry uncertainty and auroras can be fickle.
    Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 12 Sep. 2025
  • However, these forecasts can change as conditions develop going into fall and winter.
    Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But at least some of that conflict comes from false assumptions, and some of it comes from turning their preconceptions into self-fulfilling prophecies.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Scientific experiments can become self-fulfilling prophecies.
    Sara Giordano, The Conversation, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • By the weekend, the Gemini Moon invites gentle retreat to integrate the feels.
    Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 7 Sep. 2025
  • As South Florida swelters under a heat advisory that warns of feels-like temperatures of 108, thoughts turn to the coming long Labor Day weekend.
    Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 27 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • But not all Chinese companies gave them a rousing reception at a time of intense nationalism and national security suspicions under Xi.
    Joyce Jiang, CNN Money, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Laura visits Cherry’s mom, Tracey (Karen Henthorn), in hopes of getting Tracey to confirm her suspicions in a recorded conversation.
    Erin Jensen, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025

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“Prognostications.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prognostications. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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