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• 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.

• omen
• portent
• presage
• prognostic
• prodigy
• prediction
• foretelling
• forecasting
• prophecy
• vaticination

News & Articles

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• Jimmy Smith's mock draft, version three, is the same and at least one other has jumped on the Anthony Bennett bandwagon
  Little faith in this prognostication.
  June 11, 2013 - New Orleans Times-Picayune
• US Open Golf 2013: Smartest Bets for Top 10 Contention
  I've scoured over  the field for the 113th U.S. Open and pulled out the three golfers with the best chance to finish inside the top 10.  This, of course, is an inexact science. Golf is as unpredictable as it gets in the sports prognostication business. With the talented and deep fields in the PGA , and the streaky nature of the sport, leaderboards for majors will always feature a few surprises ...
  June 11, 2013 - Bleacher Report

Quotes

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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...