as in diviner
one who predicts future events or developments
ancient Roman augurs who predicted the future by reading the flight of birds
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as in to promise
to show signs of a favorable or successful outcome
the extended interview augurs well for your acceptance into that law school
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as in to predict
to tell of or describe beforehand
the fortune-teller augured nothing but a series of calamities for me
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Recent Examples of augur
Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2024
The closest Hunter has to a forerunner may be turn-of-the-millennium Robert Downey, Jr.: a painfully public avatar of squandered privilege, a darkly hilarious rogue casting off sparks of pathos and augurs of doom, America’s favorite dirtbag.
—Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2023
Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
Seven of the movies on my top-10 list come from first- and second-time filmmakers, a supermajority that augurs well for 2025 and beyond.
—Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2024
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Noun
Traditionally, companies cut temporary workers before laying off their own permanent staffers, so the sharp drop-off augurs poorly for future job growth, Nicaj says.
—Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2024
The closest Hunter has to a forerunner may be turn-of-the-millennium Robert Downey, Jr.: a painfully public avatar of squandered privilege, a darkly hilarious rogue casting off sparks of pathos and augurs of doom, America’s favorite dirtbag.
—Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2023
Verb
Certainly, the world’s No. 1 retailer’s announcement that it’s poised to undershoot its targets to reduce planet-heating emissions by the end of the decade doesn’t augur well for the industry at large.
—Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
Seven of the movies on my top-10 list come from first- and second-time filmmakers, a supermajority that augurs well for 2025 and beyond.
—Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for augur
Noun
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The diviner and client must resolve the ambiguity or decide that in this case, the spider wasn’t saying anything at all.—
Michelle Aroney and David Zeitlyn,
Smithsonian Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
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The diviner then asks a question in a yes-or-no format while tapping the enclosure to encourage the spider or crab to emerge.—
Michelle Aroney and David Zeitlyn,
Smithsonian Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
Verb
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Trump has promised to bring back coal, and those two states have subsequently provided him his greatest margins of victory over the past three presidential election cycles.—
Newsweek,
Newsweek,
7 Mar. 2025
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Trump has promised to expand the country’s oil and gas production with an eye to economic growth and lower prices.—
Justin Worland,
TIME,
7 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Oregon, Virginia, Nevada and Louisiana are among the states predicted by the KFF to experience the biggest drop in Medicaid enrolment should the cuts happen, as the map above shows.—
Matt Robison,
Newsweek,
25 Feb. 2025
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Over-fitting forces the model to be specialized to the low amount of data and thus cannot predict accurately.—
Vipin Bharathan,
Forbes,
25 Feb. 2025
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Jethro—the biblical prophet Moses' father-in-law—is the most important prophet in the Druze religion and the ancestor of all Druze.—
Tommy Tuberville,
Newsweek,
7 Mar. 2025
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Millenarian prophets associated it with empire, persecution, and decadence, often fomenting social unrest and rebellion.—
Arthur Krystal,
The New Yorker,
27 Jan. 2025
Verb
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Despite the difficulty, in some cases the stakes are so high—as with North Korea and its nuclear weapons—that armies will have no choice but to take the fight to what is often a vast, foreboding underworld.—
Kyle Mizokami,
Popular Mechanics,
27 June 2023
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There are foreboding close-ups on clock faces and their fast-changing digits.—
Erica Gonzales,
ELLE,
23 June 2023
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“Augur.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/augur. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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