prognosticator

Example Sentences

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Right now, a Magic 8 Ball might offer better insight than any prognosticator.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025

FiveThirtyEight, the prognosticator Silver founded in 2008 and left earlier this year, gives Harris a 56% chance of winning, while DecisionDeskHQ gave her a 54% chance.

From Salon • Oct. 24, 2024

Not to cast a shadow over your Groundhog Day fun, but flipping a coin is a better prognosticator of winter weather than the 39 percent success rate of Punxsutawney Phil and his coterie.

From Slate • Feb. 2, 2024

At the beginning of the season, it was hard to find a prognosticator who thought the Orioles would have a winning season, much less a chance to play late-October baseball.

From Washington Post • Aug. 30, 2022

A small sea-fowl which the natives of the Western Isles of Scotland trust in, as a prognosticator of the weather.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir