How to Use projection in a Sentence

projection

noun
  • He gave a projection of future expenses.
  • For now, projections are way up and to the right.
    — Kif Leswing, CNBC, 17 Oct. 2025
  • No one will scoff at these projections.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Now, a new projection took hold.
    — Rowan Fisher-Shotton, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2026
  • One of the highlights was the use of projections in the show.
    — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2023
  • The projection events are free and open to the public.
    — Cam'ron Hardy, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2025
  • These are projections, of course.
    — Moneyshow, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The project has struggled for years to meet sales tax projections.
    — Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 4 June 2024
  • Knicks fans didn’t all disperse when the projection of the game was turned off.
    — Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 14 June 2026
  • On current projections, that would be the fastest in the world.
    — Gaurav Sharma, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
  • My heart goes out to them, ’cause there is a part of me that feels like some of it is projection.
    — Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 26 Feb. 2026
  • And like those, there's these gobo shots with my projections of artwork.
    — Outside Online, 11 Mar. 2026
  • So that had an impact on our projection.
    — Pat Maio, Daily News, 7 June 2026
  • The stage is sparse; props and set pieces replaced with live projections from a steady cam.
    — Kathryn Vandervalk, EW.com, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Pittsburgh isn’t far above that projection, but this is the best time of night for most folks.
    — Chris Branch, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • These readings feel far more like projection, though.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The link to the projections is below.
    — Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • As of this writing some of the worst projections are not coming to pass.
    — Brian Sullivan, CNBC, 25 Jan. 2026
  • The king of prospect projections was Mark Messier.
    — Allan Mitchell, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2025
  • One thing the projections will not offer is a sense of when rate cuts might commence.
    — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The point about projections is that assumptions have to be made.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2024
  • The first question calls for some projection about how players will adapt to the new scheme.
    — Joe Buscaglia, New York Times, 4 May 2026
  • The question is about the projection to the next level.
    — Corey Pronman, New York Times, 12 June 2026
  • Delane is one of the cleanest projections in this class.
    — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2026
  • That’s what both the projections and the other rankings have said for the last few weeks.
    — Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2026
  • The projections aren't the problem, any more than the spending is.
    — Julian Hayes Ii, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026
  • The Sabres are faring well in these projections.
    — Matthew Fairburn, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The moon’s clash with Venus inclines you to projections.
    — Usa Today, USA Today, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Some of this is pure projection, in both directions.
    — Austin Meek, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2026
  • The projection is that this season is going to be much more severe than the last two.
    — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 1 Sep. 2022

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