prognosticate
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I’m not asking you to prognosticate, we know better than that on this show, but was your sense that this kind of extreme anti-government argument was not flying with the bulk of the court?
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2023
It may be tempting to prognosticate about the end of these concurrent strikes, but history is of little help here: Past strikes have spanned months and lasted minutes.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 18, 2023
There is little reason to prognosticate a sudden collapse of the dollar's status as the coin of the global realm.
From Salon ● Dec. 13, 2022
“It’s a dangerous game to prognosticate on how elections are going to turn out before they are held,” he said.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2022
“Dear mountains! my own beautiful lake! how do you welcome your wanderer? Your summits are clear; the sky and lake are blue and placid. Is this to prognosticate peace, or to mock at my unhappiness?”
From "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley
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On rare occasions, of course, the Supreme Court has mocked prognosticates with a ruling contrary to all expert expectation.
From Time Magazine Archive
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But company salesmen as a group are good prognosticates, and certain cities, such as Philadelphia and Boston, seem to be particularly seismographic in detecting the rumble of an approaching hit.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The majority of pre-season prognosticates had picked the Reds and Yankees as favorites in the 1939 pennant race.
From Time Magazine Archive
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To see loaves multiply phenomenally, prognosticates great success.
From Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical exposition by Miller, Gustavus Hindman
This total change of tone on both sides of your House forms itself no inconsiderable revolution; and I am afraid it prognosticates others of still greater importance.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
But investors should avoid jumping to conclusions, and not only because those who have prognosticated bitcoin’s demise have been wrong in the past.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 4, 2026
The 70-year-old executive has long prognosticated about risks he sees to the economy, though they often don’t come to pass.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 6, 2026
For more nomination predictions, you can check out Times awards columnist Glenn Whipp’s final picks or see what the Envelope’s Buzzmeter panel has prognosticated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2024
This time last year, I prognosticated that Washington would finish 10-2 in 2021, including a statement nonconference road win at Michigan and narrow divisional losses to Oregon and Stanford.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 2, 2022
Great things are prognosticated for Concepcion in the near future by its friends, and it is already the principal town of southern Chili.
From Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America by Ballou, Maturin Murray
A truism I’ve learned from years of prognosticating about the fate of tech companies: Once they have a certain amount of talent and capital, startups in particular can be quite nimble.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Experts say it’s no coincidence that the flurry of doomed prognosticating about Gen Alpha emerged just as the oldest were entering puberty, the developmental apex of obnoxious behavior and poor taste.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 22, 2024
Still, Huth readily admits the value of dystopian prognosticating, and hopes it will continue.
From Salon ● Jan. 18, 2024
Some college kids had been making fun of him relentlessly online for his bad prognosticating and for his political gambling habit.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 26, 2023
They would run a bookstore, give painting lessons, and assume Madame Ionesco’s bakehouse duties when she was off prognosticating, for they had surely learned a thing or two about baking while in Frankenforde.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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