"wishcast" meaning in English

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      "form": "wishcast",
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      "form": "wishcasted",
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      "form": "wishcasted",
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          "ref": "2022 December 30, Josh Gerstein, “How Justice Kagan lost her battle as a consensus builder”, in Politico",
          "text": "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].",
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        "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."
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