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Recent Examples of augur
Noun
Designed by Pininfarina, the 275 GTB is widely considered one of the prettiest cars Ferrari ever produced, and an augur of what was to come from Ferrari beyond racing: road-going cars that kept redefining how sports cars should look. Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 12 Apr. 2024 Traditionally, companies cut temporary workers before laying off their own permanent staffers, so the sharp drop-off augurs poorly for future job growth, Nicaj says. Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2024
Verb
The jump could augur a potential wave of bankruptcy filings as consumers start to buckle under a record level of debt and as tariffs fuel inflation, the company warned in a report this week. Alain Sherter, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2025 To put things simply: Those results augur very well for the movie’s Oscar fortunes. Joe Reid, Vulture, 10 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for augur
Recent Examples of Synonyms for augur
Noun
  • That spells trouble in the Indo-Pacific, a watery region where military leaders and Beltway diviners believe a war over Taiwan could erupt as soon as 2027.
    Colin Demarest, Axios, 8 Mar. 2025
  • That spells trouble in the Indo-Pacific, a watery region where military leaders and Beltway diviners believe a war over Taiwan could erupt as soon as 2027.
    Colin Demarest, Axios, 8 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Electric boats have been moving along nicely in the last five years, but this new 45-footer from Sialia promises to be a watershed design, with its carbon-fiber hull, 12-passenger capacity, generous seating and galley in the cockpit, and choice of two- or three-staterooms with head and shower.
    Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 10 June 2025
  • The majority of investors who put their money into such schemes in the past lost everything or were left with casks not worth nearly the value that they were promised.
    Felipe Schrieberg, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
Verb
  • Clean energy installations, including solar, will continue, if more slowly than previously predicted.
    Justin Worland, Time, 13 June 2025
  • The Energy Information Administration, for example, predicts that solar generation capacity will eclipse that of coal midway through next year and blow past wind power by the end of 2026.
    Nick Thomas, The Washington Examiner, 13 June 2025
Noun
  • But Becker also reveals the largely forgotten precedents for this worldview, sketching a lineage of thought that connects today’s Silicon Valley seers to earlier futurist prophets.
    John Kaag, The Atlantic, 28 May 2025
  • New prophets competed to revive her army in their image.
    Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 17 May 2025
Verb
  • With the third season of The White Lotus well underway—and its signature sense of foreboding steadily mounting—cast member Michelle Monaghan was in anything but ominous spirits last night at The Mark Hotel.
    Laura Neilson, Vogue, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Too on-the-nose to be foreboding, such clips offer a window into Linda’s mindset, as do antagonistic sessions with her therapist (and co-worker), amusingly played by Conan O’Brien with a look of constant gastric discomfort on his face that suggests her concerns may be giving him ulcers.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 24 Jan. 2025

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“Augur.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/augur. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.

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