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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Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2023
For much of the world, and especially in many countries in Asia, these hot months are a grim augur of things to come.
—Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 9 May 2023
Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2024
The odd political coalitions that have emerged in the fight over SB 1047 augur a topsy-turvy future for AI policy battles.
—Garrison Lovely, The Verge, 11 Sep. 2024
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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
For much of the world, and especially in many countries in Asia, these hot months are a grim augur of things to come.
—Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 9 May 2023
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The Gino hearing—that of an extremely successful dishonesty researcher accused of having conducted her research dishonestly—augured something similarly invigorating.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2024
The odd political coalitions that have emerged in the fight over SB 1047 augur a topsy-turvy future for AI policy battles.
—Garrison Lovely, The Verge, 11 Sep. 2024
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There is, however, one more surprise: Most of the text on Lintel 25 is written backward and was probably designed to be viewed with a mirror by ancient Maya conjurers, diviners or oracles.James L. Fitzsimmons, The Conversation, 1 May 2024
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Often enough, this meant putting the same sorts of people—women making money as healers or diviners, or colonized people whose local belief systems were frightening to the colonizers—on trial.Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
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Phoenix is the fourth stop on the tour, which promises not only holiday favorites but a handful of hits that don't have anything to do with Christmas.Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 1 Nov. 2024
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Tech startups use a wealth of data to develop digital doppelgangers which promise to immortalize people on earth.Matthew Carey, Deadline, 1 Nov. 2024
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If Trump loses, Robinson predicts unrest on the right.Zac Anderson, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2024
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During Trump's first presidential run in 2016, 538 predicted on Election Day that his Democratic opponent former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had a 77 percent chance of winning Pennsylvania as opposed to Trump's 23 percent chance.David Faris, Newsweek, 3 Nov. 2024
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Another guest was Alex Jones, the keening fabulist whom Carlson once considered beyond the pale and now treats as a prophet.Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2024
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With a shock of long white hair and a long beard, the 67-year-old looks like an Old Testament prophet.Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
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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 10 Nov. 2024.
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