How to Use augmentation in a Sentence

augmentation

noun
  • Also, the choice of model augmentation between GAR, fine-tuning and other techniques will make a difference.
    Gregorio Alejandro Patiño Zabala, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
  • For many lifts and augmentations, time and aging will cause the need for a tune up.
    Shalwah Evans, Essence, 2 July 2019
  • The Bureau of Prisons would not say how much money was spent on augmentation in the past few years.
    NBC News, 21 May 2021
  • The group backing genetic augmentation with a bunch of Texas cougars won the day.
    Discover Magazine, 11 Feb. 2020
  • If these kinds of augmentations can lift them above the crowd, soon everyone will want to be more than human.
    Vivienne Ming, Quartz, 15 July 2019
  • The study notes that the results do not reflect the most common plastic surgery: breast augmentation.
    Matt Campbell, kansascity, 3 Nov. 2017
  • At the end of the day, breast augmentation is the most effective way to permanently change your breast size.
    Ashley Abramson, SELF, 11 Apr. 2022
  • And the idea was, again, a sort of visual and mental augmentation enhancement.
    Quartz Staff, Quartz, 15 Mar. 2022
  • For some cold cities in the Northeast, breast augmentation does not even make it to the top five most popular procedures.
    David Pan, USA TODAY, 18 June 2018
  • There are ads for breast augmentation with women holding up grapefruits in front of their chests.
    Loren Savini, Allure, 27 June 2018
  • This checklist will be discussed between the patient and provider, both of who must sign off on the checklist before the augmentation can take place.
    Taylore Glynn, Allure, 3 Nov. 2021
  • Butt augmentations have exploded here and around the world.
    Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Since new deployments are smaller and spaced out over time, there is less need for staff augmentation.
    Robert Harbols, Forbes, 31 Aug. 2021
  • The Southeast is home to over a quarter of all butt implants, calf augmentations, and pectoral implants.
    Macaela MacKenzie, Allure, 22 June 2018
  • In short, there are two types of augmentation, physical and mental, in a complex dance.
    Tim O'Reilly, The Atlantic, 27 Oct. 2017
  • The world map is complete and good augmentation can be expected.
    Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 16 June 2018
  • When Garner sold her Ruscha print, the amount offered for it was exactly the same as the cost of a breast augmentation operation.
    Fiona Alison Duncan, Vogue, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Only two of the seven water-augmentation projects are expected to be up and running by the time Day Zero kicks in.
    Aryn Baker, TIME.com, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Brown went to the Botched doctors to correct scarring on her breasts from multiple augmentations, but Dubrow and Nassif are shocked by her waist.
    Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 18 Aug. 2017
  • Fraxel can also be used on the body to smooth surgical scars, like C-section or breast augmentation scars.
    Jessica Cruel, SELF, 29 June 2017
  • Denise Richards is trying to convince her daughter Sami Sheen not to get breast augmentation surgery.
    Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 1 Nov. 2023
  • But the standard mommy makeover entails a tummy tuck and breast augmentation.
    Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2023
  • Whatever the cost, this sort of augmentation project is viewed by many as practical, even inevitable.
    Kyle Paoletta, The New Republic, 30 Oct. 2023
  • No doubt, the travel will have an instant mood augmentation upon reaching the resort.
    Michael Alpiner, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Lip fillers are described as a type of lip augmentation via injection around your mouth to improve the shape, volume, and structure of your lips, according to Wed MD.
    Danielle Corcione, Teen Vogue, 11 July 2018
  • And the winner is the guest of the Mystic Stripers who was engaging in a loud discussion about physical augmentation outside Room 5.
    al, 1 Mar. 2020
  • The comments provide the first clear blueprint for ICE’s proposed augmentation of its visa-vetting program.
    George Joseph For Propublica, Ars Technica, 25 Nov. 2017
  • Big butts are out, lifted nose tips in The fad of gigantic butt augmentation is on its way out; people wanting distortion of their rear end is in its last death throes.
    Ingrid Schmidt, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 June 2018
  • Cheekbone augmentation for a model-esque contour of the face 💉💉💉 This procedure takes a few minutes and lasts 1-2 years.
    Harper's BAZAAR, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Old Jim learns, among other things, that Central used brain augmentation and conditioning to control both scientists and animals.
    Lorraine Savage, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2024

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