How to Use projection in a Sentence

projection

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  • He gave a projection of future expenses.
  • One of the highlights was the use of projections in the show.
    — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2023
  • Give the strength at the top and the middle of the Big 12, can that projection last?
    — Dallas News, 3 Feb. 2023
  • This projection is a 720p display with text in bright greens and whites and a large font.
    — Kyle Barr, Quartz, 13 Apr. 2024
  • How did the idea for the background projection of the newspapers evolve to show the passage of time?
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 26 May 2023
  • Blame it on the state — and the bleak, and then bleaker, projections for this year’s budget deficit.
    — Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2024
  • The largest projection festival in the world in France draws crowds in the millions and tourists fly in for it.
    — Audrey Brown, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Dec. 2022
  • The stage is sparse; props and set pieces replaced with live projections from a steady cam.
    — Kathryn Vandervalk, EW.com, 21 Oct. 2024
  • How are Evan and Mark feeling about their team projections for the year?
    — Kirkland Crawford, Detroit Free Press, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The project has struggled for years to meet sales tax projections.
    — Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 4 June 2024
  • That projection beats the fund’s forecasts for the British and German economies.
    — Stanley Reed, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2023
  • The point about projections is that assumptions have to be made.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2024
  • One thing the projections will not offer is a sense of when rate cuts might commence.
    — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2023
  • His projection came true over the decade that followed.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Texas has a chance if Quinn Ewers makes good on those top 10 draft projections.
    — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 13 July 2023
  • That projection forecasts a large increase in uptake over the next year and a half.
    — Bob Herman and Rachel Cohrs Zhang, STAT, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Paris will see its show start in January, with projections on the castle and (for the first time there), on Main Street.
    — Natasha Chen, CNN, 11 Aug. 2024
  • That was well short of the almost $20 billion projection.
    — Mark Gurman, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2022
  • This isn't the sort of projection to fill anyone with confidence.
    — Gaurav Sharma, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
  • No surprise then that projections for luxury goods sales in the US are rosy.
    — Chris Hall, WIRED, 6 Sep. 2024
  • The Bank of England’s latest projection is for the recession to continue through the first half of 2024.
    — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 16 Nov. 2022
  • The Times story is a reminder that the future in politics is never a straight-line projection from the present.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 29 Oct. 2022
  • Except that may not be the case given the most recent economic projections from the Fed.
    — Erik Sherman, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
  • But the attempt at projection gave me a really good laugh.
    — Isabelle Khurshudyan, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2023
  • As for the total, my model gives a projection close to 228.5 points, so there’s not much value at the current number.
    — Michael Arinze, Chicago Tribune, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Then, the polls essentially get stacked on top of that projection.
    — G. Elliott Morris, ABC News, 9 July 2024
  • At the time of that launch, first-year sales projections were expected to exceed $10 million.
    — Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 6 Sep. 2024
  • The blow flies’ main sensing organ is their antennae, two thin projections from the head that are covered in tiny hairs.
    — Christine Picard, Discover Magazine, 9 Sep. 2023
  • These workspaces have seen the highest number of job openings with projections to increase.
    — Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 7 July 2023
  • The projection suggests that humanity is far from meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement and raises new concerns about the progress of climate change.
    — Fernanda González, WIRED, 10 Jan. 2025

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