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forecast

[fawr-kast, -kahst, fohr-] / ˈfɔrˌkæst, -ˌkɑst, ˈfoʊr- /




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You can always check the hour-by-hour cloud, fog and temperature forecast for your area by checking BBC Weather online or the app.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026

This weekend's forecast will not necessarily be great news for those hoping to catch the start of the shower.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026

She expects the move to be driven by policy normalization rather than immediate inflationary pressures, with 2027 inflation forecast at 1.9%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

Goldman Sachs has lowered its forecast for gold prices, citing the potential for more Federal Reserve interest-rate hikes.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2026

By noon it was apparent that the weather forecast was in error.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

“We may be heading into the first earnings season in a long time with more cautious forecasts and expectations,” he noted, which means “room for some meaningful beats.”

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2026

The Italian lender beat earnings forecasts by 16%, due to a better-than-expected performance “on most of the lines that matter”, KBW notes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

Long-term forecasts are based on large-scale climate signals and how they have affected weather patterns in previous years.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

Thomas and Struyven noted that the recent bond-market rally helped to bring the market’s pricing of future hikes closer to the bank’s forecasts.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2026

So the citizens of Oxford read the weather forecasts in the newspaper, and enjoyed the pale sun on their faces, and began to put their sandbags away.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman

Revenue fell 4% to $2.7 billion, but not by as much as analysts forecasted, which was for a drop to $2.67 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

“When a wind event, Red Flag Warning, low humidity period, or other elevated fire weather is forecasted after a wildland fire, departments should reassess recently controlled fire areas before the weather arrives,” the report said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

The NPS said on Monday that a second body had been recovered, while warning that "forecasted weather may affect the timing and pace" of further search operations.

From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026

Last season, only four teams featured in the forecasted top-four positions, but this time there are seven named, in 15 different combinations.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

The weatherman had forecasted a record high for the day of the meet.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad

Economists are divided on the policy outlook, with some forecasting a rate hike in 2027 and others expecting rates to remain unchanged.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

Instead they’re forecasting that spending will continue but costs will rise — and the buildout will shift to states and localities that make deals with developers or are generally more welcoming to the centers.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026

However, the OBR also emphasised the difficulties in economic forecasting, highlighting uncertainty over the future path of inflation, in particular, which could turn out to be either significantly higher or lower than their predictions.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

It is forecasting fourth-quarter revenue of about $4.15 billion, above a Visible Alpha forecast of nearly $4.12 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Against his bleak forecasting is set my mother’s cheerfulness, in retrospect profoundly willed.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood


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