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Recent Examples of augury These signs seem to confirm Sahm’s augury that the economy remains healthy. David Thomas, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024 The auguries were not favorable for a Pétain acquittal. Robert O. Paxton, Harper's Magazine, 17 Dec. 2023 With this new investor, the augury for the cigar industry is good. Nicholas Foulkes, Robb Report, 15 Apr. 2023 Advertisement Remarkably, Kushner’s augury of a world coming apart holds true three decades later, including his prognostications about the dangers of climate change and the radical partisanship of the judiciary. Peter Marks, Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2023 See All Example Sentences for augury
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Noun
  • While the eastern part of Arizona similarly shows a 40-50% lower than normal precipitation prediction.
    Paige Moore, AZCentral.com, 21 Oct. 2025
  • DraftKings, which has lost roughly $5 billion in market cap over the last few weeks due to the growth of prediction exchanges, is planning to launch its own futures marketplace in the coming months.
    Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The Heat hopes this winless preseason isn’t a bad omen for what’s ahead this time around.
    Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Aranda’s spectacular 2021 season appears not an omen for Baylor football but rather one of those magical one-off years.
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Threshold moments invite divination, making the equinox the perfect night to host a tarot or oracle gathering.
    Michaela Trimble, Vogue, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Indeed, Absolutely was a project of divination, of spiritual conjuring.
    Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 18 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • In industries like customer service or supply chain management, this could mean embedding AI into existing platforms to streamline workflows, augment human decision-making, or improve forecasting accuracy.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The weather service offers 7-day forecasting, as uncertainty increases beyond a week out.
    Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Half of those tested had osteoporosis or a forerunner condition, osteopenia.
    The New York Times News Service Syndicate, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Compared to their forerunners in the tsarist era, with their party congresses held abroad, their executive committees, and their active recruitment in imperial Russia’s universities, Soviet dissidents remained a comparatively small and informal conglomeration of activists.
    Benjamin Nathans September 24, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Now, trend forecasts show that design professionals will favor more tone-on-tone, cohesive palettes that tend to offer a sense of calm, visual harmony, and longevity.
    Shivani Vyas, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Strong gains on Monday before the event started — and then, again, Thursday after a rosy longer-term forecast — carried the week.
    Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Many reckoned with its ideals; pervasive talk of liberty held particular portent for women’s lives.
    Jane Kamensky, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Keane, though, sees nothing but disaster ahead, a portent presaged by some of the film’s most enduring images, like a stretch limo with a flat tire and a steam room littered with empty champagne bottles.
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Yesterday seemed much more like a team retreating by choice, both through in-game changes and by the sheer fear of surrendering another lead — a fear that became a self-fulfilling prophecy.
    Steve Madeley, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
  • As natural disasters erupt, Virginia flees Detroit with her son Joshua, guided by visions that suggest her child is central to an ancient prophecy.
    Okla Jones, Essence, 4 Oct. 2025

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“Augury.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/augury. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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