Examples of augury in a Sentence

a yearbook augury that of all the graduates, he would be the most likely to succeed some people believe that a broken mirror is an augury of seven years' bad luck

Recent Examples on the Web During the past 14 years of drought, the Colorado River Delta has been a living augury of the Colorado River and the ever-expanding swell of Southwesterners who depend on it. — The Editors, Outside Online, 23 Dec. 2014 As of Sunday, 55,000 of those ballots came from districts that Adams won — a far higher share than went to any other candidate, and a good augury for the current leader. — Noah Millman, The Week, 29 June 2021 Tesla’s trillion-plus valuation amounts to an augury by investors that EVs will turn out to be a bonanza for Tesla and Tesla alone. — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 30 Nov. 2021 Further, their closure should not necessarily be read as an augury of continuing franchise attrition. — Chris Lee, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2021 June served as an augury for the city, with the 21st hottest average June temperature on record. — Julia Musto, Fox News, 2 Sep. 2020 There are three strands to the 2020 augury this offers. — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019 This speculative novel depicts a society in which citizens live and die by the auguries of predictive algorithms developed by a mega-corporation called Beetle. — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2020 Now science may have found an answer, in the form of molecular augury. — Michele Cohen Marill, Wired, 19 Dec. 2019 See More

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