as in diviner
one who predicts future events or developments
ancient Roman augurs who predicted the future by reading the flight of birds
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as in to promise
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 to predict
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 augur
Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2024
The closest Hunter has to a forerunner may be turn-of-the-millennium Robert Downey, Jr.: a painfully public avatar of squandered privilege, a darkly hilarious rogue casting off sparks of pathos and augurs of doom, America’s favorite dirtbag.
—Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2023
Shawn Tully, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2024
Harris’s move comes amid signs inflation is finally cooling, after reaching a 41-year high during her vice presidency, auguring a possible interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve before the election.
—W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 16 Aug. 2024
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Traditionally, companies cut temporary workers before laying off their own permanent staffers, so the sharp drop-off augurs poorly for future job growth, Nicaj says.
—Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2024
The closest Hunter has to a forerunner may be turn-of-the-millennium Robert Downey, Jr.: a painfully public avatar of squandered privilege, a darkly hilarious rogue casting off sparks of pathos and augurs of doom, America’s favorite dirtbag.
—Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2023
Verb
In the Peach State contests pitting Republicans Kelly Loeffler and David Purdue respectively against Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, the polls held a week before Election Day augured that both GOP candidates would win comfortably, in a twofer securing the party’s control of the upper chamber.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2024
Harris’s move comes amid signs inflation is finally cooling, after reaching a 41-year high during her vice presidency, auguring a possible interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve before the election.
—W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 16 Aug. 2024
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There is, however, one more surprise: Most of the text on Lintel 25 is written backward and was probably designed to be viewed with a mirror by ancient Maya conjurers, diviners or oracles.James L. Fitzsimmons, The Conversation, 1 May 2024
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Often enough, this meant putting the same sorts of people—women making money as healers or diviners, or colonized people whose local belief systems were frightening to the colonizers—on trial.Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
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Republicans are in agreement about extending the expiring provisions passed in 2017, but Trump promised a hodge-podge of new tax breaks on the campaign trail, some of which will face GOP resistance.David Sivak, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 7 Dec. 2024
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The twenty-one-day scramble toward the snap election promised to be chaotic, and in the wake of the announcement Macron’s popularity plunged to new lows.Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2024
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If Reddit achieves profitability in 2025, as Nowak predicts, the company could be on the path for inclusion into an S & P index, the analyst said.Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 9 Dec. 2024
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The same report highlights that by integrating AI to predict equipment failures and automate routine quality control checks, enterprises have reported a 40% reduction in downtime and an almost 15% increase in overall productivity.Dean DeBiase, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
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Jason Lemon, Senior Politics Editor Philosophy The Prophet By Kahlil Gibran | Penguin Classics The Prophet is a collection of poetic essays by the legendary writer Gibran about a fictional prophet who is asked by townspeople to discuss matters of life before sailing home.Newsweek Staff, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
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The obvious question is, how can a false prophet have the ability to perform miracles?Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 26 Aug. 2024
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Despite the difficulty, in some cases the stakes are so high—as with North Korea and its nuclear weapons—that armies will have no choice but to take the fight to what is often a vast, foreboding underworld.Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 27 June 2023
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There are foreboding close-ups on clock faces and their fast-changing digits.Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 23 June 2023
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“Augur.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/augur. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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