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prognostication

/prog-nos-ti-key-shuhn/US // prɒgˌnɒs tɪˈkeɪ ʃən //

预测,预言,预估,预报

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of prognosticating.
    • : a forecast or prediction.

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Examples

  • When we first published an interactive checking the accuracy of our various prognostications, back in April 2019, the sports world was relatively normal.

  • In the decades since, literary fiction has scaled back on such audacious maximalism, narrowing its breadth to fit the contours of individual lives rather than sweeping prognostications of collective life.

  • There are prognostications that cities are dead, and that places like San Francisco and New York are oversaturated.

  • What comes next is a bit mind bending—a glimmer of autobiography disguised as fictional prognostication.

  • But beyond press chatter, price swings, and political prognostication, the European reaction to the storm has been limited.

  • This is crunch time for folks in the prognostication business.

  • “This is the problem with so much media prognostication,” Kurtz argues, before quoting none other than Jeff Toobin.

  • The size of the crowds took everyone—at least in the professional prognostication class—by surprise.

  • However, Philopoemen was not deceived in his prognostication of what would happen; for the Lacedaemonians were thoroughly routed.

  • When a single crow flies over you it is the sign of a funeral; two are a certain prognostication of a wedding.

  • It ran sometimes straight ahead, but usually in circles, and to see it was a prognostication of death.

  • This is the infallible prognostication where you may foresee your endless state.

  • Numerous swims in that lake have weakened this prognostication.