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forecasting
adjective as in oracular
Weak matches
- ambiguous
- anticipating
- apocalyptic
- arcane
- auguring
- auspicious
- authoritative
- cabalistic
- clairvoyant
- cryptic
- Delphian
- discovering
- divining
- divulging
- dogmatic
- fatidic
- foreboding
- foretelling
- imperious
- interpretive
- mantic
- mysterious
- mystical
- obscure
- occult
- ominous
- peremptory
- portending
- portentous
- positive
- predicting
- presaging
- prescient
- proclaiming
- prognosticating
- prophesying
- sage
- secret
- sibylline
- significant
- soothsaying
- vague
- vatic
- venerable
- wise
noun as in prediction
noun as in prognostication
Example Sentences
She seems to think that “climate science” is “long range weather forecasting.”
He had his team practice the bank heist over and over, throwing in various possibilities and forecasting alternative measures.
Like it or not, forecasting is a “what have you done for me lately” profession.
And his history of forecasting elections places him among the elite prognosticators of all time.
But Sam Wang of Princeton stands almost alone in forecasting that the Democrats will just barely hold their Senate majority.
When the trees of the virgin forest cast their shadows on the newly risen roof there was no forecasting provision for winter.
He was rid of Bessie Lynde, too, and of the trouble of forecasting and discounting her caprices.
Indeed, for a while, her closest associates were conservative in forecasting on that point.
This in turn necessitated forecasting the zero time as a result of the observed times of passing the previous positions.
But King Olaf, forecasting this, had sent men to bore holes in the boats so that they would not float.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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