predict wrongly
Frequency: 5.56.5 per million words
To forecast an outcome that is mistaken.
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- The analysts wrongly predicted a stock market crash this year.
- Many experts wrongly predicted the outcome of the presidential election.
- It is easy to see now that the weather was wrongly predicted.
- Scientists wrongly predicted that the comet would hit the earth.
- The quarterly sales figures were wrongly predicted by the marketing team.
- The critics wrongly predicted that the movie would be a total failure.
- He wrongly predicted his own success in the national competition.
- Economists wrongly predicted an immediate recovery after the crisis.
- The long-term impact of the new policy was wrongly predicted by the government.
- I wrongly predicted how long the journey across the mountains would take.