- present participle of forecast.
forecasting
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As evidence in support of his conclusion that predictions are difficult, Marks referred to the market-lagging performance of macro hedge funds — funds that are based on macro forecasting.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2026
But the bigger question now is whether companies can sustain that momentum into 2027, when Wall Street analysts are forecasting earnings growth of more than 16%.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026
Thailand’s headline inflation is also expected to rise sharply, with Barclays forecasting a 3.5% increase in October, up from 2.82% in September, driven by higher energy and food prices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 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
They dodged trainees pouring out of forecasting labs, talking about their moon prophecies.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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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 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
No one knew just how much Miss Brentwood had to do with the long-delayed awakening of David Kent; but in Loring's forecastings she enjoyed the full benefit of the doubt.
From The Grafters by Francis Lynde
From this it follows that repeated forecastings of series of events, by facilitating the imaginative process, tend to beget an illusory appearance of contraction in the time anticipated.
From Illusions A Psychological Study by James Sully
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