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wishcast

verb

Etymology

Back-formation from wishcasting, equivalent to a blend of wish + forecast.

  1. inherited from forecast
  2. inherited from forecasten
  3. compounded as wishcast — “wish + forecast”

Definitions

  1. To interpret information or a situation in a way that casts it as favorable or desired,…

    To interpret information or a situation in a way that casts it as favorable or desired, despite the fact that there is no evidence for such a conclusion.

    • Since then, as [Chief Justice John] Roberts predicted and seemed to wishcast, there have been some signs of a thaw at One First Street NE [the address of the United States Supreme Court Building].

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for wishcast. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA