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Recent Examples of augury 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 Her first food was fish skin, blackened and reeking of the sea—augury foreshadowing her fearlessness, her love of swimming, her appetites. Aria Beth Sloss, Bon Appétit, 22 Mar. 2022 See All Example Sentences for augury
Recent Examples of Synonyms for augury
Noun
  • This prediction hitting will depend in part on whether the Penguins, or a team in their position, likes the best of the Leafs’ future goodies in a Rust-like transaction.
    Jonas Siegel, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • But, contrary to Cole’s predictions, the forests weren’t gone forever.
    Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Even setting aside its usual criticisms (antisocial, privacy-invading, a bad omen for human connection), the necklace simply didn’t work as advertised.
    Jordan Blum, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2025
  • For over two centuries, eerie sightings of the Dash have tied it to omens of death and supernatural lore.
    Leanna Renee Hieber, Big Think, 2 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
  • Tom Andersson became interested in weather models after hearing from experts that, despite rapid progress in AI forecasting, the models weren’t yet reliable enough to predict storm intensity in real-world settings.
    Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2025
  • These recurring revenues are steady, received regularly, and can be considered a better barometer of a company’s financial performance, and a better basis for planning and forecasting.
    David Moin, Footwear News, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • The event turned out to be a forerunner to the UN Earth Summit.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Cohen is director of seasonal forecasts at Atmospheric and Environmental Research.
    Doyle Rice, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Here's the forecast for Sault Ste.
    Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 4 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • As portents go, after a testing summer for Newcastle, this did not look altogether positive.
    The Athletic UK Staff, New York Times, 20 Aug. 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 9 Oct. 2025.

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