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augment

[awg-ment, awg-ment] / ɔgˈmɛnt, ˈɔg mɛnt /


Usage

What are other ways to say augment? Augment, a somewhat formal word, means to make greater, especially by addition from the outside: to augment one's income (by doing extra work). To increase means to make greater, as in quantity, extent, or degree: to increase someone's salary; to increase the velocity; to increase the (degree of) concentration. Enlarge means to make greater in size, extent, or range: to enlarge a building, a business, one's conceptions.

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"This suggests that repurposing medications that augment the function of dopamine-releasing neurons, including dopamine precursors and inhibitors of dopamine metabolism, could be a promising approach."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

Rather than expanding cyber teams, he said, employers are looking to AI to augment their current workers’ productivity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

And if you have $40,000, you could still guarantee a portion of it to augment your lifestyle above Social Security.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026

None of them augment it with their own.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026

Some way had to be found to impart greater energies to the projectiles: man’s cunning had to augment nature’s gifts to create a new kind of nuclear probe.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Curated by Hever’s Alison Palmer, Owen Emmerson and Kate McCaffrey, this extraordinary exhibition augments Hever’s “Rose Portrait” of Anne with personal objects and 37 other depictions, including 14 oil portraits on loan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

In other words, will AI be a force that replaces labor, or augments it?

From MarketWatch ● May 18, 2026

And when that movie is up for an Oscar, the prestige factor augments our hope and anticipation.

From Salon ● Mar. 11, 2026

Novo’s cautious C-suite was ready to target Type 2 diabetes—an obvious choice, as GLP-1 augments insulin secretion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025

“That’s amazing. My mother says they’re superhuman. Their second operation augments all their muscles and rewires their nervous system. And they’re so scary-looking, a lot of people just panic the first time they see one.”

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld

England's front four looks a natural fit, augmented by Chelsea's Morgan Rogers, while Liverpool's 18-year-old Rio Ngumoha will be an international contender for years to come.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

This journal, which is eventually augmented by the daughter, makes up the book we are reading.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Its Irish operations also include a virtual and augmented reality business in Cork and a data centre outside Dublin.

From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026

Snap, which unveiled more powerful $2,195 augmented reality glasses this year, sold glasses that record video in bright yellow vending machines in 2016, but the product flopped.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026

You must know your major, minor, augmented and diminished triads.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

Lewenstein believes AI’s true promise lies in augmenting, not automating, human capabilities.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 29, 2025

On many of these songs, Ms. Case places her poetic narratives in a chamber-pop setting, with tasteful orchestrations augmenting guitar, piano, bass and drums.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2025

These questions point to an exciting potential for developing more adaptive training frameworks that not only focus on teaching AI but also on augmenting human capabilities to form future human-AI teams.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 3, 2024

“We view AI as a great tool for augmenting, enhancing and supplementing our current operations,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2024

Diminishing or augmenting chords does strange things to the way they behave.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall




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