projecting

Example Sentences

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Washington is a city obsessed with projecting power through stone, and littered with overinflated federal buildings of white marble dressed up with colonnades, pediments and porticos.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

Analysts raised their price targets to $130 and $140, with one projecting the CPU market to grow 35% annually by 2030.

From Barron's • May 18, 2026

His proposed ballroom “represents another way this presidency has abandoned its imperative of projecting modesty, openness, and stability,” the architect and historian Neil Flanagan complained in the Atlantic this month.

From Slate • May 18, 2026

The problem with calculations projecting the value of Roth conversions is that they rely a lot of assumptions, like future tax rates, inflation and portfolio growth.

From MarketWatch • May 15, 2026

I am better off doing as Abnegation taught me: turning away from myself, projecting always outward, and hoping that in whatever is next, I will be better than I am now.

From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth