AUGURING Synonyms: 72 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

as in prediction

a declaration that something will happen in the future it's a good thing that people don't remember the tabloid's augurings a year later, since very few come to pass

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verb

present participle of augur

as in promising

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 predicting

to tell of or describe beforehand the fortune-teller augured nothing but a series of calamities for me

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Verb

Millar, however, noted that a gauge of wholesale costs rose at the fastest pace in more than three years, auguring a further rise in consumer prices. — Paul Davidson, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2025

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Noun

Sportsbook odds can also reflect risk management and bettor demand, while prediction markets can be influenced by liquidity and trader composition.

— Giovanni Malloy, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
World Cup enthusiasm has given a jolt to prediction market platform Rothera, a joint venture between Susquehanna International Group and Robinhood.

— Davis Giangiulio, CNBC, 4 July 2026

Definition of prediction

Verb

That Santos ranked among some of the best midfielders in the Premier League for line-breaking passes last season is promising.

— Carl Anka, New York Times, 10 July 2026
After the planning board vote, Miami City Commissioner Damian Pardo held a town hall meeting at which Regalado and other county officials sought to allay those fears, promising to shield the neighborhood and develop traffic-mitigation measures.

— Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 10 July 2026

Definition of promising

Verb

Many climate scientists are predicting that 2027 — because of pent up heat — will break the 2024 global high temperature record set by the last strong El Nino.

— Seth Borenstein, Fortune, 9 July 2026
This independence from linear order is incompatible with an LLM’s fundamental purpose of predicting the next value in a linear sequence.

— Benjamin Skuse, IEEE Spectrum, 9 July 2026

Definition of predicting

Noun

For the most recent earnings season, these forecasting fruit flies buzzed around modeling 12% earnings growth for the quarter.

— Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 5 July 2026
This is because temperature measurements used in weather forecasting are taken in the shade and are not exposed to direct sunlight.

— Brian Bossak, The Conversation, 1 July 2026

Definition of forecasting

Noun

The move comes as Meta simultaneously plans a new cloud computing business to sell excess capacity, even as investors remain skeptical of its roughly $145 billion capex forecast and the company's lag behind AI leaders OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.

— Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 9 July 2026
For the full year, Pepsi reiterated its prior forecast that organic revenue will rise between 2% and 4% and core constant currency earnings per share will increase in a range of 4% to 6%.

— Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 9 July 2026

Definition of forecast

Noun

The prophecy came true last fall, when Alpert and the Brass sold out all shows on a theater tour that climaxed in November in a buzzy pair of appearances down the street at the Dolby Theatre.

— Chris Willman, Variety, 7 July 2026
She’s sustained by her love for her husband, their home in the megacity Losan (strikingly similar to Los Angeles), until a prophecy draws her to an enemy and a clash that will determine the fates of their peoples.

— Hamilton Cain, Time, 7 July 2026

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