In December 1998, he won sudden prominence with an outlandish prediction: that Amazon.com, then trading at $240, would soon rise to $400.

Yet many analysts believed their outlandish predictions.

There's a terrible risk inherent in writing science fiction: sometime in the distant future, some nitpicking soul will remember to check up on which of your outlandish predictions come true, and which turn out to...

He will make no outlandish predictions, save to say he is enjoying every second and every not-so-sharply taken single.

Kortunefookie's Web site suggest users to send an innermost secret, a smarmiest wisecrack, a private prayer or an outlandish prediction.

I feel a bit like that columnist who, in a satirical essay on Dec. 31, 1968, made the most outlandish and unlikely predictions he could think of for the coming year.

That Lindauer's outlandish predictions actually came true, Godfrey suggests, further encouraged the exalted sense of personal mission that brought her to Washington in the first place.

That Matt Cooke of the Pittsburgh Penguins would be suspended for 10 games wasn't an outlandish prediction.

A crash is a moment of panic when events are out of control and outlandish predictions become thinkable.

A sketch in which the cast would make outlandish predictions for the future is thematically similar to Late Night with Conan O'Briens recurring In the Year 2000 sketch.