Sample Sentences for
prognosticate
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    Guns are going off and people are dying, and they calmly prognosticate heat-not the heat of the battle but of the weather.  (source)
    prognosticate = predict
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    The big G's weather prognosticator, Altitude Lou McNally, was calling for temperatures of over 100 degrees inland and not much cooler on the coast.  (source)
    prognosticator = forecaster
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    You will believe my prognostications another time, though I daresay I shan't live to prognosticate anything but my own death.  (source)
    prognostications = predict
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    Until that moment Dr. Urbino Daza had not noticed the inappropriateness of his prognostications, and he became enmeshed in a long series of explanations that only made matters worse.†  (source)
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    Is this to prognosticate peace, or to mock at my unhappiness?†  (source)
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    The child spent whatever free time her tutors left her in reading, moving numerous different objects without touching them, chasing Barrabas, practicing various techniques of prognostication, and learning to knit, which was the only one of the domestic arts she ever mastered.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    The prioress, that pronounced prognosticator, immediately took a fancy to Cosette and gave her a place in the school as a charity pupil.†  (source)
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    In an hour the slight moisture resolved itself into a monotonous smiting of earth by heaven, in torrents to which no end could be prognosticated.†  (source)
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    To those who thought they would be more physical than us, we could all remember back to the mat drills and Coach Mick, and we knew we were going to show not just Ohio State but all the pundits and prognosticators just how physical we could be.†  (source)
    prognosticators = people who make informed predictions
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    King Pelles had gone to the library to work out some prognostications, and his guest was left gloomily in the hall.†  (source)
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    "Monsieur le protonotare," asked Gauchère, "what do you prognosticate of this pretended foundling?"†  (source)
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    He knew that Angela rarely cast the dragon bones for the people who sought her services-usually only for those whom Solembum deigned to speak with-as such a prognostication was no false act of magic but rather a true foretelling that could reveal the mysteries of the future.†  (source)
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    Lastly at the head of the board was the young poet who found a refuge from his labours of pedagogy and metaphysical inquisition in the convivial atmosphere of Socratic discussion, while to right and left of him were accommodated the flippant prognosticator, fresh from the hippodrome, and that vigilant wanderer, soiled by the dust of travel and combat and stained by the mire of an indelible dishonour, but from whose steadfast and constant heart no lure or peril or threat or degradation could ever efface the image of that voluptuous loveliness which the inspired pencil of Lafayette has limned for ages yet to come.†  (source)
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