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as in promised
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 predicted
to tell of or describe beforehand
the fortune-teller augured nothing but a series of calamities for me
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Recent Examples of augured
This is a massive shift from late last year, when talk of an AI bubble augured capital expenditures that would come back to bite tech companies when token demand plummeted.
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Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 1 Apr. 2026
That may sound like a funny thing to say, in 2025, or in any year since the legendary rock singer-songwriter died in 2003, given a perennial underdog status that never augured for anything that would be likely to be called a posthumous groundswell, per se.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 24 Oct. 2025
Husseini attempted to ply him with patronage, appointing him imam of a new mosque, but the cleric’s burgeoning following augured poorly for Husseini’s grip on power.
—Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
Before Shakespeare, there was Christopher Marlowe, whose poetry lifted up Elizabethan drama and augured a rivalry with the Bard of Avon.
—Heller McAlpin, Christian Science Monitor, 10 Sep. 2025
Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 1 Apr. 2026
That may sound like a funny thing to say, in 2025, or in any year since the legendary rock singer-songwriter died in 2003, given a perennial underdog status that never augured for anything that would be likely to be called a posthumous groundswell, per se.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 24 Oct. 2025
Husseini attempted to ply him with patronage, appointing him imam of a new mosque, but the cleric’s burgeoning following augured poorly for Husseini’s grip on power.
—Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
Before Shakespeare, there was Christopher Marlowe, whose poetry lifted up Elizabethan drama and augured a rivalry with the Bard of Avon.
—Heller McAlpin, Christian Science Monitor, 10 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for augured
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The president promised to supercharge building here, but then failed to fund a single new bed in this year's budget request.—
Quil Lawrence,
NPR,
2 June 2026
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In 1978, my father, Ebrahim Yazdi, supported the revolution and Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, precisely because Khomeini promised not to become an autocrat.—
Letters to the Editor,
Washington Post,
2 June 2026
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Some early polls predicted a possible dual Republican matchup, panicking Democrats worried about losing the governor’s mansion for the first time in two decades and reigniting an effort to reform the primary system.—
Lia Russell,
Sacbee.com,
3 June 2026
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Of the 180,000 barrels per day of gasoline demand that evaporated from the Chinese market, 70% won’t come back – ever, JPMorgan predicted.—
David Goldman,
CNN Money,
3 June 2026
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But Graham does fit an archetype of front-office construction that has boded well for other organizations, particularly in his willingness to invest in a more modern approach to roster building.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
6 May 2026
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That boded well for a 2008 conversation at Seiller's home.—
Amanda Hancock,
Louisville Courier Journal,
6 Mar. 2026
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