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prognostication

prog no stuh kay shuhn

  • n  a sign of something about to happen
  • n  a statement made about the future
  • n  knowledge of the future (usually said to be obtained from a divine source)

  • This year, with the recent surprise announcement that CEO Steve Jobs would not be keynoting at the annual Macworld Expo on Monday, there's even more prognostication and persiflage .
  • If this sounds like the kind of smart-alecky prognostication one might hear on a slow night at Elaine's well, it is.
  • As Stockman noted 20 years ago, phony accounting and disingenuous prognostication are not illegal when you are running the government.
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  • Vaclav Havel in Christian Science Monitor
    Hope is not prognostication,Havel wrote. "It is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart; it transcends the world that is immediately experienced, and is anchored somewhere beyond its horizons." "It is not the...
  • Lance Berkman in Anaheim Angels
    I'm not necessarily confident that it couldn't be a distraction,Lance Berkman said. "It's just not yet. The prognostication of what's going to be a distraction and what's not -- until it actually becomes that, I'm just as content to say,...
  • Vinod Khosla in New York Times
    There are many more weapons in the war on oil than the narrow-minded folks who do prognostication imagine,Mr. Khosla said. "Most of the action in energy is coming from biotechnology, and the most interesting work in biotechnology is...

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