- present participle of forecast.
forecasting
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On Tuesday afternoon, the National Weather Service in Los Angeles was forecasting elevated surf and strong rip currents at beaches this weekend and into next week as a result of multiple southerly swells.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
However, they provide a foundation for future research into better forecasting tools and potential treatments.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
Wall Street investors, for instance, are forecasting three more rate hikes between now and April, according to the closely followed FedWatch tool.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026
Over time, he said, he took note when members of OpenAI’s safety team left the company, including Daniel Kokotajlo, who started a research team forecasting different scenarios of AI development.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
“I make my living forecasting the future for people,” he said.
From "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho
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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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He was wiser in his forecastings than I was in mine.
From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Francis Lynde
Little thought Mary of any of the speculations that busied the friendly head of Miss Prissy, or that lay in the provident forecastings of her prudent mother.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 by Various
He tastes the pleasures of ambition—pleasures full of vague forecastings and long, long hopes.
From Child Life In Town And Country 1909 by A. R. (Alfred Richard) Allinson
In all his forecastings he had never pictured a homecoming remotely resembling the fact.
From The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush by Francis Lynde