This year, in place of confident predictions, there are mutual recriminations.

Too many factors concerning medical care are fluid to make any confident predictions.

A great deal of our confident prediction, based on such expensive intelligence, is so much guesswork.

Something of a chain reaction has set in beyond anyone's confident prediction.

So much for Ryan's confident prediction that the dust was too fine a powder to erode anything.

And many believed in the confident prediction of history's inevitable triumph.

After all, there have been confident predictions about second-half recoveries the last three years.

All agree that there is a long way to go before truly precise and confident predictions about global warming can be made.

He offered no such confident prediction for the thorny issue of health care.