AUGURED Synonyms: 50 Similar and Opposite Words

augured

verb

past tense of augur

as in promised

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 predicted

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 augured Hence, Raymond James heralded a 400% explosion by 2031, and Stifel at the bottom of the range augured a 19% rise. — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 18 July 2026 This is a massive shift from late last year, when talk of an AI bubble augured capital expenditures that would come back to bite tech companies when token demand plummeted. — Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 1 Apr. 2026 That may sound like a funny thing to say, in 2025, or in any year since the legendary rock singer-songwriter died in 2003, given a perennial underdog status that never augured for anything that would be likely to be called a posthumous groundswell, per se. — Chris Willman, Variety, 24 Oct. 2025 Husseini attempted to ply him with patronage, appointing him imam of a new mosque, but the cleric’s burgeoning following augured poorly for Husseini’s grip on power. — Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025 Before Shakespeare, there was Christopher Marlowe, whose poetry lifted up Elizabethan drama and augured a rivalry with the Bard of Avon. — Heller McAlpin, Christian Science Monitor, 10 Sep. 2025

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The ambitious festival also promised a youth jazz camp and youth jazz intensive/master class, and seminars on the state of jazz in America.

— Michael Schneider, Variety, 8 Aug. 2026
As of May, Uber was still trying to unlock the innovation AI promised.

— Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 7 Aug. 2026

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Gen Z’s homeownership rate is predicted to be about 10% lower than that of their parents.

— Margaux MacColl, Vanity Fair, 11 Aug. 2026
The alternative—exiting with no deal—meant trading with the EU and other countries on the terms of the World Trade Organization (WTO), which was predicted to cause severe economic disruption.

— Nick Tabor, Encyclopedia Britannica, 11 Aug. 2026

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But Graham does fit an archetype of front-office construction that has boded well for other organizations, particularly in his willingness to invest in a more modern approach to roster building.

— Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2026
That boded well for a 2008 conversation at Seiller's home.

— Amanda Hancock, Louisville Courier Journal, 6 Mar. 2026

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