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UK
/pɹˌɒɡnəstɪkˈeɪʃən/
]
[ US /pɹɑɡˌnɑstəˈkeɪʃən/ ]
[ US /pɹɑɡˌnɑstəˈkeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
-
a sign of something about to happen
he looked for an omen before going into battle - a statement made about the future
- knowledge of the future (usually said to be obtained from a divine source)
How To Use prognostication In A Sentence
- His gloomy prognostications proved to be false.
- As you can see, prognostication is a dangerous game.
- Democrats, if all the political prognostication is accurate, are the ones likely to be swallowed up. The bear election
- Given the greater reliance on biopsy techniques to establish an initial histopathologic diagnosis, prognostication will depend on maximal extraction of information from small biopsy samples.
- I've been interviewing some experts and I'll have their prognostications up in a little bit.
- For all the attention lavished on polls, prognostications and policy positions, a presidential campaign measures, most of all, the mettle and maturity of the candidates.
- This description of ‘what is to take place hereafter’ is not a prognostication of events in any distant future but a declaration of what is right around the comer, the certain consequences of present conduct.
- Your accurate prognostication has spanned relationships, business transactions, even the fickle weather.
- As academic life grew more removed from the convention, the prognostications became self-fulfilling prophecies.
- Their match had almost been epic, but there was little time to sit back and enjoy it as the euphoria of the victory was soon replaced by prognostications about the final.