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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
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.
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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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for augured
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After their dinner at Kkanbu Chicken, the three leaders headed to Nvidia’s GeForce Gamer Festival, where Huang – flanked by Lee and Chung – promised to make a big announcement at the APEC summit on Friday.—
Gawon Bae,
CNN Money,
31 Oct. 2025
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The Folsom City Council voted to approve a $266 million budget in June and promised to revisit its budget deficit in the following months.—
Ishani Desai,
Sacbee.com,
30 Oct. 2025
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Brentford, who are looking better than some predicted, were beaten, too.—
Chris Weatherspoon,
New York Times,
31 Oct. 2025
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Bleacher Report's Zach Buckley recently predicted the Los Angeles Dodgers would be the ones to land Tucker on a 10-year contract this offseason.—
Zach Pressnell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Oct. 2025
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The credit analyst said August retail sales boded well for the remainder of the bts period, which typicall runs through the end of September.—
Vicki M. Young,
Footwear News,
6 Oct. 2025
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Viral marketing tactics, coupled with strong social media word-of-mouth, boded well for both films’ success, said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for the data firm Comscore.—
Itzel Luna,
Chicago Tribune,
10 Aug. 2025
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“Augured.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/augured. Accessed 1 Nov. 2025.
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