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augur

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Recent Examples of augur
Noun
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
The items can be accessed by the customer turning a little knob that augurs the product into the customer’s hand. Roger Dooley, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025 Yet human-rights advocates believe that the incorporation of Islamist elements into the interim administration augurs diminishing space for minorities. Charlie Campbell, TIME, 21 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for augur
Recent Examples of Synonyms for augur
Noun
  • That spells trouble in the Indo-Pacific, a watery region where military leaders and Beltway diviners believe a war over Taiwan could erupt as soon as 2027.
    Colin Demarest, Axios, 8 Mar. 2025
  • Questions like these have been asked of diviners around the world throughout history—and still are today.
    Michelle Aroney and David Zeitlyn, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • This was the beginning of the end for the Suns promising future.
    Mikai Bruce, Forbes.com, 1 Apr. 2025
  • But instead of going full steam ahead with expanding on a nascent horror franchise, the brothers are returning instead with another new, original horror film — one that promises to be weirder, gorier, scarier, and sadder than their debut.
    Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 31 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • In the first two months of the year, core inflation, which excludes volatile items such as food and energy, is estimated to have risen by just 0.3%, Macquarie’s Hu said, predicting that this would mark the longest deflationary streak since 1993.
    Anniek Bao, CNBC, 21 Mar. 2025
  • The National Park Service, which tracks the blooming of the trees each year, predicts peak bloom will be between March 28 and 31 this year.
    Nicole Brown Chau, CBS News, 21 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The biblical prophet was born in Egypt, where the Israelites were enslaved, and soon after Pharaoh ordered the murder of all their newborn sons.
    Miriam Eve Mora, The Conversation, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Kibbe himself, now in his seventies, remains both the system’s prophet and its greatest mystery.
    Rachel Hills, Vogue, 4 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • 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
  • 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 3 Apr. 2025.

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