How to Use prognostication in a Sentence

prognostication

noun

• But here’s the best news: The prognostications are about to cease.
  — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 24 Apr. 2018
• Check back in a few years to see how that prognostication pans out.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Jan. 2023
• The team will again pick high in the draft and will be about $70 million under the salary cap, according to some prognostications.
  — Kent Somers, azcentral, 13 Dec. 2019
• SA: So give us your prognostications for all of the state college football teams this year.
  — Mike Bianchi, OrlandoSentinel.com, 26 Aug. 2017
• Once again, this stands in contrast to the prognostications of some cynics.
  — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian, TIME, 23 Sep. 2024
• But that still leaves us time for one more first-round prognostication, which will be freshened through the week as news dictates.
  — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2017
• But the Runnin’ Utes took that prognostication and sent it home in disgrace.
  — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Dec. 2022
• The prognostications of gloom after the sale of Neymar have perhaps been a little hasty.
  — Jonathan Wilson, SI.com, 12 Sep. 2017
• The speed of change in the crypto sector makes prognostication perilous.
  — Joanna Ossinger, Fortune, 1 June 2021
• But the futurists of the Roaring ’20s did come fairly close on a few prognostications.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 24 Jan. 2024
• Prospects for tax cuts and new infrastructure spending seem to have moved the markets more than have the Fed’s prognostications.
  — The Economist, 14 Sep. 2017
• So far, there’s no lack of prognostications about the democratic doom that AI may wreak on the U.S. system of government.
  — Bruce Schneier, The Conversation, 20 June 2023
• There will be a lot of back-and-forth, prognostication and apocalyptic talk over the next several months about whether and how the debt ceiling will be raised.
  — Lanhee J. Chen, CNN, 3 Feb. 2023
• There can be only one, goes this line of prognostication.
  — Matt Peckham, Time, 27 June 2017
• There is a ritual groundhog prognostication with a polka band, just like in the film.
  — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 2 Feb. 2018
• Chuck’s prognostication sparked cheers from those in attendance, all of them delighted by the prospects of an early spring.
  — Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 2 Feb. 2024
• Seiichi Kito co-founded the place in 1903 and slipped into each cookie a haiku, not a prognostication.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2022
• The prediction - or prognostication, as The Punxsutawney Groundhog Club calls it - focuses on what to expect with the weather for the next six weeks.
  — Joe Brandt, Jim Donovan, CBS News, 2 Feb. 2024
• Forecast in detail Winter isn’t over yet, but for now the groundhog’s prognostication of an early spring rings true.
  — Molly Robey, Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2024
• The stock market is taking a punch to the solar plexus, but the part of the fantasy sports industry dedicated to prognostication about the NFL Draft hasn’t lost a step.
  — Don Yaeger, Forbes, 3 May 2022
• Part of that prognostication was due to the team’s overhauled roster, featuring five newcomers who needed to mesh on the court.
  — Tom Green | [e-mail], al, 27 Feb. 2022
• The 2022 political deck is full of wild cards, which make prognostication risky.
  — Gerald F. Seib, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2022
• Months of speculation and prognostication are about to give way to actual action in the NFL draft.
  — Michael Middlehurst-Schwartz, USA TODAY, 29 Apr. 2021
• So all this prognostication preseason is kind of stupid because injuries will play a key role in teams going down and teams going up in the standings.
  — Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 6 Apr. 2022
• Johnson may have been off by a year (thanks largely to Hastings taking a medical redshirt), but the rest of his prognostication was spot-on.
  — Tom Green | [e-mail], al, 28 Apr. 2020
• Most draft prognostications have Lacy as a top 10 selection, perhaps going first overall or in the top three.
  — Brent Zwerneman, ExpressNews.com, 13 Feb. 2020
• Those prognostications never materialized, and in light of the NBA’s ruling, Mayo has taken a step back from the game.
  — Matt Giles, Longreads, 12 Aug. 2017
• And good luck finding a prognostication that has the Wolves sniffing a playoff spot in the loaded Western Conference.
  — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 21 Oct. 2019
• For now, all that is certain about Trump’s first year is the 2016 truism that past prognostications and current polls are irrelevant.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 7 Feb. 2018
• Even as the public markets gyrate in the throes of ongoing mid-term valuation prognostications, GenAI is producing value.
  — Ruth Foxe Blader, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024