Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A foreknower or foreteller of future events by present signs; a soothsayer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who prognosticates; a foreknower or foreteller of a future course or event by present signs.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
prognosticates or makespredictions ; one whoforecasts orguesses
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the basis of special knowledge)
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Examples
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You may recall a certain prognosticator doing some fancy prognosticating on Friday.
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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 Stuart Muszynski 2012
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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 Stuart Muszynski 2012
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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 Stuart Muszynski 2012
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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 Stuart Muszynski 2012
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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 Stuart Muszynski 2012
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What is magical about Punxsutawney is not just the movie or the mythical 127-year-old marmot known as the "prognosticator of prognosticators."
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Stuart Muszynski 2012
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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.
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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 RJ 2010
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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 RJ 2010
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