augured

verb

past tense of augur
1
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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2
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 The Houthis also made important gains inland, all but besieging the strategic city of Taiz, Yemen’s third-largest city, in a move that augured more Houthi advances. — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2026 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for augured
  1. promised
  2. predicted
  3. boded
Verb
  • Peltola has also promised to expand the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which help low-income households pay for their energy bills.
    — Maydeen Merino, The Washington Examiner, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Vaonis has promised to expand the Atlas ecosystem after launch, including a backpack, filters, an equatorial wedge and most importantly, new imaging modules.
    — Harry Bennett, Space.com, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of promised
Verb
  • Conditions outside of the wind are expected to be sunny, and the day’s high is predicted to reach 68 before dropping to around 48 Monday night.
    — The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore Sun, 18 Oct. 2026
  • This year, those existing factors coincide with what is predicted to become the strongest El Niño event in recorded history.
    — Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC news, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of predicted
Verb
  • 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
Definition of boded

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