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as in prediction
a declaration that something will happen in the future
a yearbook augury that of all the graduates, he would be the most likely to succeed
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as in omen
something believed to be a sign or warning of a future event
some people believe that a broken mirror is an augury of seven years' bad luck
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as in divination
the art or practice of foretelling future events by interpreting omens
the gift of augury that Nostradamus purportedly possessed
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Recent Examples of augury
The auguries were not favorable for a Pétain acquittal.
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Robert O. Paxton, Harper's Magazine, 17 Dec. 2023
With this new investor, the augury for the cigar industry is good.
—Nicholas Foulkes, Robb Report, 15 Apr. 2023
Advertisement Remarkably, Kushner’s augury of a world coming apart holds true three decades later, including his prognostications about the dangers of climate change and the radical partisanship of the judiciary.
—Peter Marks, Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2023
Her first food was fish skin, blackened and reeking of the sea—augury foreshadowing her fearlessness, her love of swimming, her appetites.
—Aria Beth Sloss, Bon Appétit, 22 Mar. 2022
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Robert O. Paxton, Harper's Magazine, 17 Dec. 2023
With this new investor, the augury for the cigar industry is good.
—Nicholas Foulkes, Robb Report, 15 Apr. 2023
Advertisement Remarkably, Kushner’s augury of a world coming apart holds true three decades later, including his prognostications about the dangers of climate change and the radical partisanship of the judiciary.
—Peter Marks, Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2023
Her first food was fish skin, blackened and reeking of the sea—augury foreshadowing her fearlessness, her love of swimming, her appetites.
—Aria Beth Sloss, Bon Appétit, 22 Mar. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for augury
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Tropical weather experts at Colorado State University echo these predictions, saying overall atmospheric conditions, including wind patterns, will shift in a manner that supports a notable increase in activity.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
10 Sep. 2025
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My preseason prediction of nine wins feels very much in play.—
Lawrence Dow,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
9 Sep. 2025
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Bad omen when your season starts with a spitting ejection in first minute of first game?—
Greg Cote
September 7,
Miami Herald,
7 Sep. 2025
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In the final novel of the series, The Last Battle, the destruction of trees and dryads in Lantern Waste, a place tied to the creation of Narnia itself, is one of many portentous omens signalling the end of the world.—
Ellen Walker,
JSTOR Daily,
3 Sep. 2025
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Indeed, Absolutely was a project of divination, of spiritual conjuring.—
Jeff Ihaza,
Rolling Stone,
18 Aug. 2025
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Recently, the method of divination has had another resurgence in modern day.—
Lisa Stardust,
People.com,
20 June 2025
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Its data will feed directly into NOAA's forecasting models to help safeguard satellites, communications systems and power grids from geomagnetic storms.—
Josh Dinner,
Space.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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The team is now preparing to launch on the Bittensor network with a time series forecasting project in finance, finalizing their incentive mechanism, miner, and validator design.—
Becca Bratcher,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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The reactor is the forerunner to the Aalo Pod, a 50-megawatt modular power plant designed specifically for data centers.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Aug. 2025
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Bittler has been with Paramount (and its forerunner Viacom) for some 25 years, most recently as executive vp communications for the company’s kids and family division, including Nickelodeon, Awesomeness and kids and family series at Paramount+.—
Rick Porter,
HollywoodReporter,
26 Aug. 2025
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The September total lunar eclipse will not be visible from the United States, per NASA's forecast.—
Melina Khan,
USA Today,
6 Sep. 2025
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The agency’s three-day forecast indicates a minor geomagnetic storm, measured at a value of up to G2 on a scale of G1 to G5.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
6 Sep. 2025
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As portents go, after a testing summer for Newcastle, this did not look altogether positive.—
The Athletic UK Staff,
New York Times,
20 Aug. 2025
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Televisual séances are no longer nightly, much less consensual, which is why the move by CBS is seen as a portent of a more general house cleaning over at NBC and ABC.—
Thomas Doherty,
HollywoodReporter,
15 Aug. 2025
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But at least some of that conflict comes from false assumptions, and some of it comes from turning their preconceptions into self-fulfilling prophecies.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
8 Sep. 2025
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Whether or not that is the beginning of the end for linear TV is a prophecy game more than anything right now.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Augury.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/augury. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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