How to Use prognosticate in a Sentence

prognosticate

verb
  • No one is really good at prognosticating—in the media or elsewhere—at least not for very long.
    — Jim Impoco, Newsweek, 3 Feb. 2014
  • Trying to prognosticate about which volcanoes might erupt is about as predictable as who will make this year's baseball playoffs.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 5 Jan. 2016
  • Don't be seduced by those who claim to be able to prognosticate, instead be proactive about how to keep yourself safe during an earthquake.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 18 Jan. 2018
  • Ahead, plastic surgeons prognosticate on the treatments that will fizzle out, gain steam, or even revel in a rebrand.
    — Jolene Edgar, Allure, 11 Dec. 2025
  • In October, Talsma says Tony was able to prognosticate his game show fame.
    — Elise Brisco, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Models originally prognosticated that a wave of low pressure would throw a deck of cloud cover over the coastline.
    — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 1 July 2019
  • But our sorry showing in the early rounds undercuts any claim to prognosticating success.
    — Jon Wilner, Mercury News, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Still, that doesn’t stop analysts, and even companies themselves, from taking a stab at prognosticating.
    — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 26 June 2023
  • According to the Free Press' prognosticating pair, the Cubs will take the division, but the rest is up in the air.
    — Dana Sulonen, Detroit Free Press, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Like the latter set of nominees, the actors selected by their peers aren’t very likely to surprise those who have been keeping up with award prognosticating this year.
    — Toni Collette, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2019
  • My key stat for prognosticating the Rockies pitching season is watching the first couple months of the season and seeing how many innings are pitched by the bullpen.
    — Patrick Saunders, The Denver Post, 23 Oct. 2019
  • After a 6-7 start in the first baker's dozen of games, the defending champions look more mortal than many prognosticated in the early spring.
    — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Nevertheless, faith in Tom Brady at home remains a near-absolute in my prognosticating canon.
    — Greg Cote, miamiherald, 26 Oct. 2017
  • And some experts even prognosticate a Final Four appearance for Kelsey in Year 2.
    — Payton Titus, Louisville Courier Journal, 23 Oct. 2025
  • After all, there’s been plenty of prognosticating about the movies that are generating the most heat with Oscar voters and other awards bodies.
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Remember, nothing on the internet can prognosticate perfectly, but Kayak’s metrics are a helpful gauge.
    — Fox News, 11 June 2017
  • Utah The Hotline undoubtedly has a more optimistic view of Utah’s prospects than most others in the prognosticating business.
    — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2025
  • This kind of information allows for better prognosticating their future production.
    — Jared Diamond, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2018
  • Awards season for films is starting in earnest with festivals, prognosticating, and Vulture’s Movie Fantasy League all in full swing.
    — Vulture, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Rangers manager Skip Schumaker talked about focusing on the moment with Rocker and not trying to prognosticate the future for the former top pick.
    — Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Every year there’s at least one rising artist who gets a substantially bigger bonanza of nominations than anyone had prognosticated, and this year that artist is Leon Thomas.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 7 Nov. 2025
  • In a chaotic and unpredictable world, somebody with artificially TV-friendly looks stands in front of a map that isn’t there and attempts to prognosticate the unknowable future.
    — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 27 Feb. 2026
  • The obsessive-compulsive Mac me-zine community has been prognosticating for quite some time now, but with exceptionally little certainty.
    — Lukas Hauser, WIRED, 18 July 2001
  • That called for some elasticity of mind, some willingness to view this new circumstance with a measure of charity and receptivity – a determination to watch and listen rather than pronounce and prognosticate.
    — Barton Swaim, Twin Cities, 25 May 2017
  • Buyers could look at more social media reactions, from Twitter to Letterboxd, to prognosticate prospective audience responses.
    — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Feb. 2022
  • That hasn’t stopped our stalwart insiders from viewing them and preferentially voting in 10 Oscar categories (most points for most likely, or most hoped for, to succeed) for your prognosticating pleasure.
    — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Overjoyed economists began prognosticating as many as six rate cuts in 2024, which resulted in the Dow Jones shooting up to record levels and the bulls claiming a recession had been definitively avoided.
    — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 7 May 2024
  • When the zoo's most recent groundhog, Wynter, died in 2017, polar bear Snow Lilly performed the duties normally handled by a prognosticating rodent this past February.
    — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 June 2018
  • Bank of America Securities analyst Robert Ohmes just downgraded Target from hold to sell, prognosticating another 10-15% share drop.
    — Noah Barsky, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The new rule of thumb when prognosticating about the NBA trade deadline is to never say never — Luka Doncic is a Los Angeles Laker now — but the Nuggets are just too good to mess around with their playoff rotation over a tax bill.
    — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 1 Feb. 2026

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