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/pɹəɡnˈɒstɪkˌeɪtɐ/
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NOUN
- someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the basis of special knowledge)
How To Use prognosticator In A Sentence
- What is magical about Punxsutawney is not just the movie or the mythical 127-year-old marmot known as the "prognosticator of prognosticators. Stuart Muszynski: Punxsutawney Values: What America Can Learn From Groundhog's Day
- Through sleet and rain, through 25 cm of April snow, through the buzz of locusts, we turn to these weather prognosticators for harbingers of better times.
- If the snake so much as hiccups as the rat inches along, the market analysts and social prognosticators pounce.
- Hume says that the polls and prognosticators are right, and at best, the Dems might be able to win at the margins with a massive Get Out The Vote effort, which all Dem activists now believe wholeheartedly is something that Jon Stewart is going to destroy, because it's much easier to blame someone else for massive losses that would have happened anyway, than to face up to the fact that their own candidates aren't that compelling as people, that all your GOTV volunteers would just schlep off to DC to watch comedy, finding it to be more sustaining to their lives. TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads
- Not to be overlooked in the controversy were the paranoid prognosticators who saw grand conspiracies and sinister plots everywhere.
- Seated next to Clinton on her first visit to the kingdom, Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal called the chief US diplomat a good "prognosticator," adding he was inclined to believe her warnings on the Revolutionary Guard. Channel NewsAsia Front Page News
- Now analysts are beginning to weigh in on the game's potential, with one professional prognosticator saying the game could nearly match sales of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.
- One of my favorite prognosticators, Worldchanging Executive Editor Alex Steffen keynoted last Tuesday with some simple and clear rules for the future of sustainable design. Sustainable Design Update » Blog Archive » Sustainable Thoughts From O’Reilly Conf.
- You'd think a record like that would inject even the most self-confident prognosticator with a little humility. Richard (RJ) Eskow: Ben Bernanke Wants Your Social Security Money
- Society-wide measures of religious behavior muffle portentous change that may be occurring at the younger edge of the population, so social prognosticators just like commercial advertisers focus on trends among young adults, trying to discern which aspects of behavior are what they are because the youths are young, and which aspects are what they are because of when they are young. American Grace