prognosticator

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Recent Examples of prognosticator Outside the Vatican, prognosticators of all stripes scrambled to predict what name would be announced from the basilica balcony. Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 11 Oct. 2025 Preseason prognosticators in Las Vegas placed the San Diego State football team’s over-under for victories this season at 4 1/2. Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Oct. 2025 Both of our intrepid prognosticators are … trying their best. Jon Greenberg, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025 Here's a closer look at how the prognosticators see Michigan's winter in 2025-26. Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 9 Oct. 2025 There are at least four notable premieres for box office prognosticators to keep their eyes on next week. Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Oct. 2025 Their payroll ballooned well into the $350 million range, and prognosticators had them as potentially the best team ever. Dan Freedman, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for prognosticator
Noun
  • In Wisconsin, forecasters are not expecting La Niña conditions to have major impacts on the weather, but there is a chance of a wetter and warmer winter in Wisconsin due to La Niña.
    Maia Pandey, jsonline.com, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The forecast also does not factor in Siberian snow cover, which other forecasters use as the basis for their winter weather forecasts.
    Doyle Rice, USA Today, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • That spells trouble in the Indo-Pacific, a watery region where military leaders and Beltway diviners believe a war over Taiwan could erupt as soon as 2027.
    Colin Demarest, Axios, 8 Mar. 2025
  • The diviner then asks a question in a yes-or-no format while tapping the enclosure to encourage the spider or crab to emerge.
    Michelle Aroney and David Zeitlyn, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Just four years after graduating, Aschenbrenner is holding private discussions with tech CEOs, investors, and policymakers who treat him as a kind of prophet of the AI age.
    Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2025
  • He was named one of the church's top governing bodies in 1984, and became its leader and prophet in 2018, at the age of 93.
    Richard Hall, Time, 28 Sep. 2025

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“Prognosticator.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prognosticator. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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