wishcasts
wishcasts is the third-person singular simple present indicative of wishcast.
Meaning of wishcast
Verb
wishcast (third-person singular simple present wishcasts, present participle wishcasting, simple past and past participle wishcast or (common, but sometimes proscribed) wishcasted)
- 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].2022 December 30, Josh Gerstein, “How Justice Kagan lost her battle as a consensus builder”, in Politico
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- What is wishcasts the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
- Wishcasts is the third-person singular simple present indicative of wishcast.
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