- present participle of forecast.
forecasting
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However, long-range forecasting is fraught with uncertainty and while the season as a whole may be mild, some chilly interludes are also anticipated.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
Last year, Nardi and Mazzini also published research forecasting an increase in MHWs along the U.S.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
Analysts are forecasting the August headline personal consumption expenditures price index to rise 0.4% month over month from 0.2% in July, while remaining unchanged at 3.7% year over year.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 27, 2026
The analysts expect Waymo, Tesla and Zoox to rapidly scale their production and autonomous vehicle fleets over the next three years, forecasting they will make up 5% of bookings by 2028.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
At sunset, clouds piled up like purple mountains, forecasting rain.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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Although the attitude of Canadian weathermen towards their U. S. collaborators continued warm, their forecastings were cloudy, omitted any mention of barometric pressure.
From Time Magazine Archive
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From this it follows that repeated forecastings of series of events, by facilitating the imaginative process, tend to beget an illusory appearance of contraction in the time anticipated.
From Illusions A Psychological Study by James Sully
And then some motherly forecastings of her daughter's future, kindly counsel where she could offer any, and affectionate prayers for the guidance of God where the future was too dark for her to penetrate.
From The Personal Life of David Livingstone by William Garden Blaikie
In forecastings of this order, therefore, Davis exercised himself.
From Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Charles James Lever
In dim forecastings, wrestles within them the "Divine Idea of the World," yet will nowhere visibly reveal itself.
From A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time by Ernest Rhys