Literary notes about forecast (AI summary)
The term "forecast" in literature often serves as a multifaceted tool for predicting both tangible and abstract futures. In historical and prophetic contexts, it warns of impending events or heralds destiny—as when it alludes to future alliances or divine designs [1][2]. At times the word takes on a personal tone, intimating the outcomes of marriages or even a character’s own fate, suggesting that individual lives are bound to larger, preordained patterns [3][4]. In more everyday settings, it is used to comment on the predictability—or inherent unpredictability—of natural phenomena like the weather, while also playing a role in pragmatic assessments such as planning and military strategy [5][6][7]. Thus, authors harness "forecast" not only to evoke mystery and suspense but also to interrogate the limits of human foresight and the interplay between fate and free will [8][9][10].
- [Sidenote: 1736—A projected double alliance] We get one or two notes about this time that seem to have a forecast of later days in them.
— from A History of the Four Georges, Volume II by Justin McCarthy - But I warrant thee—nay, I may not warrant," she added, checking herself, "for who can of a surety forecast what God's designs should be?
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 02, October, 1865 to March, 1866 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Various - The forecast of your marriages is also bound to be true.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda - He cannot fail to read in it a forecast of his own fate.
— from The Lone Ranche by Mayne Reid - The weather forecast told us of storms all the way from the Marianas to the Empire.
— from The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Manhattan District - Before taking off from Honolulu, the airmen wanted a forecast for this long route and a report of the weather at Wake.
— from The Hurricane Hunters by Ivan Ray Tannehill - By means of these seven considerations I can forecast victory or defeat. 15.
— from The Art of War by active 6th century B.C. Sunzi - His most conspicuous trait was an ability to scent the wind and forecast it a night in advance.
— from The call of the wild by Jack London - For we forecast what may be good, not only before God but also before men.
— from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete - " "Tell it me, then, thy dream," said the woman, "for dreams oft forecast but the weather.
— from The Story of the Volsungs (Volsunga Saga); with Excerpts from the Poetic Edda
