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as in promised
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 predicted
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 augured
This is a massive shift from late last year, when talk of an AI bubble augured capital expenditures that would come back to bite tech companies when token demand plummeted.
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Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 1 Apr. 2026
That may sound like a funny thing to say, in 2025, or in any year since the legendary rock singer-songwriter died in 2003, given a perennial underdog status that never augured for anything that would be likely to be called a posthumous groundswell, per se.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 24 Oct. 2025
Husseini attempted to ply him with patronage, appointing him imam of a new mosque, but the cleric’s burgeoning following augured poorly for Husseini’s grip on power.
—Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
Before Shakespeare, there was Christopher Marlowe, whose poetry lifted up Elizabethan drama and augured a rivalry with the Bard of Avon.
—Heller McAlpin, Christian Science Monitor, 10 Sep. 2025
Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 1 Apr. 2026
That may sound like a funny thing to say, in 2025, or in any year since the legendary rock singer-songwriter died in 2003, given a perennial underdog status that never augured for anything that would be likely to be called a posthumous groundswell, per se.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 24 Oct. 2025
Husseini attempted to ply him with patronage, appointing him imam of a new mosque, but the cleric’s burgeoning following augured poorly for Husseini’s grip on power.
—Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
Before Shakespeare, there was Christopher Marlowe, whose poetry lifted up Elizabethan drama and augured a rivalry with the Bard of Avon.
—Heller McAlpin, Christian Science Monitor, 10 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for augured
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Observers say their prosecution and the disappearance of the vigil symbolized the decline in freedoms that Beijing had promised when the former British colony returned to Chinese rule in 1997.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
19 May 2026
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Karpathy was one of several OpenAI employees Musk borrowed from OpenAI to do months of free work at Tesla, where the development of self-driving vehicles wasn’t going as quickly as promised.—
Ashley Capoot,Lora Kolodny,
CNBC,
19 May 2026
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Afternoons are predicted to have the worst traffic for the three-day weekend.—
Kathleen Wong,
USA Today,
13 May 2026
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Beran predicted Beijing would limit media access to avoid any off-script remarks being widely reported.—
Sylvie Zhuang,
CNN Money,
13 May 2026
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But Graham does fit an archetype of front-office construction that has boded well for other organizations, particularly in his willingness to invest in a more modern approach to roster building.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
6 May 2026
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That boded well for a 2008 conversation at Seiller's home.—
Amanda Hancock,
Louisville Courier Journal,
6 Mar. 2026
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“Augured.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/augured. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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