How to Use prognostication in a Sentence

prognostication

noun
  • Check back in a few years to see how that prognostication pans out.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Jan. 2023
  • For those of us who love our backyards, that’s not such a bad prognostication.
    — Stephanie Pearson, WIRED, 31 May 2021
  • If anything, all the prognostication about it is being led by dread.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 26 Mar. 2026
  • All of this brings us back to Bolt, whose prognostication has merit.
    — Cory Mull, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Once again, this stands in contrast to the prognostications of some cynics.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian, TIME, 23 Sep. 2024
  • But all of these prognostications turned out to be horribly wrong.
    — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2024
  • But that still leaves us time for one more first-round prognostication, which will be freshened through the week as news dictates.
    — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2017
  • Not that these prognostications are wrong.
    — Jonathan Odden, Artforum, 2 June 2026
  • Here’s a team-by-team look at the league, with a prognostication of their regular-season record.
    — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 20 Oct. 2025
  • There is a ritual groundhog prognostication with a polka band, just like in the film.
    — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 2 Feb. 2018
  • Yet some view the very idea of market prognostication with skepticism.
    — Alex Traub, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The speed of change in the crypto sector makes prognostication perilous.
    — Joanna Ossinger, Fortune, 1 June 2021
  • There was no mention in the study of whether the finger was used to perform any type of invasive prognostication.
    — New Atlas, 9 Oct. 2024
  • But that can be entirely changed by events beyond anyone's prognostication at this stage.
    — Jon Keller, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2026
  • But the Runnin’ Utes took that prognostication and sent it home in disgrace.
    — Alex Vejar, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Chuck’s prognostication sparked cheers from those in attendance, all of them delighted by the prospects of an early spring.
    — Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The prognostications of gloom after the sale of Neymar have perhaps been a little hasty.
    — Jonathan Wilson, SI.com, 12 Sep. 2017
  • While the prognostication of learning from anywhere has not really panned out, the idea of learning at any time has been a big seller.
    — Derek Newton, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
  • Evans, a 6-foot-6 guard from Duke, said he wasn’t offended by prognostications that place him late in the first round.
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2026
  • The team will again pick high in the draft and will be about $70 million under the salary cap, according to some prognostications.
    — Kent Somers, azcentral, 13 Dec. 2019
  • Not because of any health prognostication.
    — Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • So all this prognostication preseason is kind of stupid because injuries will play a key role in teams going down and teams going up in the standings.
    — Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 6 Apr. 2022
  • Prospects for tax cuts and new infrastructure spending seem to have moved the markets more than have the Fed’s prognostications.
    — The Economist, 14 Sep. 2017
  • There will be a lot of back-and-forth, prognostication and apocalyptic talk over the next several months about whether and how the debt ceiling will be raised.
    — Lanhee J. Chen, CNN, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Forecast in detail Winter isn’t over yet, but for now the groundhog’s prognostication of an early spring rings true.
    — Molly Robey, Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2024
  • So were all those prognostications that 2024 would be the AI election year wrong?
    — Vittoria Elliott, WIRED, 26 Dec. 2024
  • On Thursday, Pandora lived up to that end of its prognostications.
    — Rex Crum, The Mercury News, 9 Feb. 2017
  • The 2022 political deck is full of wild cards, which make prognostication risky.
    — Gerald F. Seib, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2022
  • But the futurists of the Roaring ’20s did come fairly close on a few prognostications.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Most draft prognostications have Lacy as a top 10 selection, perhaps going first overall or in the top three.
    — Brent Zwerneman, ExpressNews.com, 13 Feb. 2020

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