prognosticate
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While U.S. officials are studiously tight-lipped about the prospects of freeing Ms. Griner and Mr. Whelan, Mr. Richardson is willing to prognosticate.
From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2022
“Historians hate to prognosticate about the future,” Bristow said.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 18, 2022
As a result, instead of focusing on case counts to prognosticate about omicron, policymakers should follow more reliable metrics, particularly the number of hospitalized patients who are receiving oxygen.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2021
I’d love to prognosticate that the rebrand will be a failure and that humans will see though this massive public relations pivot.
From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2021
“Dear mountains! my own beautiful lake! how do you welcome your wanderer? Your summits are clear; the sky and lake are blue and placid. Is this to prognosticate peace, or to mock at my unhappiness?”
From "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley
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But company salesmen as a group are good prognosticates, and certain cities, such as Philadelphia and Boston, seem to be particularly seismographic in detecting the rumble of an approaching hit.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The majority of pre-season prognosticates had picked the Reds and Yankees as favorites in the 1939 pennant race.
From Time Magazine Archive
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On rare occasions, of course, the Supreme Court has mocked prognosticates with a ruling contrary to all expert expectation.
From Time Magazine Archive
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To dream of seeing the moon with the aspect of the heavens remaining normal, prognosticates success in love and business affairs.
From Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical exposition by Gustavus Hindman Miller
The Psalmist, Psalm lxxxv., expects much good from this conjunction of the celestial attributes, and prognosticates salvation to be near at hand, and all good things, as the immediate effect of it.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning
But investors should avoid jumping to conclusions, and not only because those who have prognosticated bitcoin’s demise have been wrong in the past.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 4, 2026
The 70-year-old executive has long prognosticated about risks he sees to the economy, though they often don’t come to pass.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 6, 2026
For more nomination predictions, you can check out Times awards columnist Glenn Whipp’s final picks or see what the Envelope’s Buzzmeter panel has prognosticated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2024
“I think they are the lone team in the Conference of Champions that has a real shot at going undefeated. So I prognosticated that would be the team,” Leaf said.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 31, 2021
The climate, too, falsified all predictions, and instead of converting the wool to hair, which experts had prognosticated as the inevitable result of an ardent summer, grew an excellent fleece of fine lustrous combing wool.
From Our First Half-Century: A Review of Queensland Progress Based Upon Official Information by Queensland
A truism I’ve learned from years of prognosticating about the fate of tech companies: Once they have a certain amount of talent and capital, startups in particular can be quite nimble.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Relying on polls and the prognosticating reputation of their Washington correspondent, editors announced the victory of Republican New York Gov. Thomas Dewey over the incumbent president, Democrat Harry S. Truman.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2024
Still, Huth readily admits the value of dystopian prognosticating, and hopes it will continue.
From Salon ● Jan. 18, 2024
Some college kids had been making fun of him relentlessly online for his bad prognosticating and for his political gambling habit.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 26, 2023
“A bit, yes. She’s usually busy prognosticating all over the neighborhood. You’d be amazed what people will pay for a glimpse of the Great Unknown.”
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
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