How to Use prognostication in a Sentence

prognostication

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  • But here’s the best news: The prognostications are about to cease.
    — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Check back in a few years to see how that prognostication pans out.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Jan. 2023
  • The team will again pick high in the draft and will be about $70 million under the salary cap, according to some prognostications.
    — Kent Somers, azcentral, 13 Dec. 2019
  • SA: So give us your prognostications for all of the state college football teams this year.
    — Mike Bianchi, OrlandoSentinel.com, 26 Aug. 2017
  • But that still leaves us time for one more first-round prognostication, which will be freshened through the week as news dictates.
    — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2017
  • But the Runnin’ Utes took that prognostication and sent it home in disgrace.
    — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Dec. 2022
  • The prognostications of gloom after the sale of Neymar have perhaps been a little hasty.
    — Jonathan Wilson, SI.com, 12 Sep. 2017
  • The speed of change in the crypto sector makes prognostication perilous.
    — Joanna Ossinger, Fortune, 1 June 2021
  • But the futurists of the Roaring ’20s did come fairly close on a few prognostications.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Prospects for tax cuts and new infrastructure spending seem to have moved the markets more than have the Fed’s prognostications.
    — The Economist, 14 Sep. 2017
  • So far, there’s no lack of prognostications about the democratic doom that AI may wreak on the U.S. system of government.
    — Bruce Schneier, The Conversation, 20 June 2023
  • There will be a lot of back-and-forth, prognostication and apocalyptic talk over the next several months about whether and how the debt ceiling will be raised.
    — Lanhee J. Chen, CNN, 3 Feb. 2023
  • There can be only one, goes this line of prognostication.
    — Matt Peckham, Time, 27 June 2017
  • There is a ritual groundhog prognostication with a polka band, just like in the film.
    — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 2 Feb. 2018
  • Chuck’s prognostication sparked cheers from those in attendance, all of them delighted by the prospects of an early spring.
    — Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Seiichi Kito co-founded the place in 1903 and slipped into each cookie a haiku, not a prognostication.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2022
  • The prediction - or prognostication, as The Punxsutawney Groundhog Club calls it - focuses on what to expect with the weather for the next six weeks.
    — Joe Brandt, Jim Donovan, CBS News, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Forecast in detail Winter isn’t over yet, but for now the groundhog’s prognostication of an early spring rings true.
    — Molly Robey, Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2024
  • The stock market is taking a punch to the solar plexus, but the part of the fantasy sports industry dedicated to prognostication about the NFL Draft hasn’t lost a step.
    — Don Yaeger, Forbes, 3 May 2022
  • Part of that prognostication was due to the team’s overhauled roster, featuring five newcomers who needed to mesh on the court.
    — Tom Green | [email protected], al, 27 Feb. 2022
  • The 2022 political deck is full of wild cards, which make prognostication risky.
    — Gerald F. Seib, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2022
  • Months of speculation and prognostication are about to give way to actual action in the NFL draft.
    — Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, USA TODAY, 29 Apr. 2021
  • So all this prognostication preseason is kind of stupid because injuries will play a key role in teams going down and teams going up in the standings.
    — Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 6 Apr. 2022
  • Johnson may have been off by a year (thanks largely to Hastings taking a medical redshirt), but the rest of his prognostication was spot-on.
    — Tom Green | [email protected], al, 28 Apr. 2020
  • Most draft prognostications have Lacy as a top 10 selection, perhaps going first overall or in the top three.
    — Brent Zwerneman, ExpressNews.com, 13 Feb. 2020
  • Those prognostications never materialized, and in light of the NBA’s ruling, Mayo has taken a step back from the game.
    — Matt Giles, Longreads, 12 Aug. 2017
  • And good luck finding a prognostication that has the Wolves sniffing a playoff spot in the loaded Western Conference.
    — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 21 Oct. 2019
  • For now, all that is certain about Trump’s first year is the 2016 truism that past prognostications and current polls are irrelevant.
    — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 7 Feb. 2018
  • There are good arguments for a universal basic income that have nothing to do with the tech industry's prognostications.
    — Joel Mathis, theweek, 26 July 2024
  • For a multitude of reasons, many people — including residents — are avoiding Paris this summer, despite prognostications that a travel boom was all but assured.
    — Monica Pitrelli, CNBC, 28 July 2024

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