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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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One of us worked side-by-side with Fed officials for a number of years on ways to augment the dot plot.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

Long Beach will augment its normal emergency preparedness actions for the storm and continuous impacts from a potentially historic El Niño, city spokesperson Laath Martin wrote in a statement to the Times.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

"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

It can be used to automate an assembly line, to compensate for a gap in the user’s skills, or to augment and sharpen individual creativity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

To augment the small income from the service station, C.P. got a job as an unskilled maintenance worker at Duke University.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

What must change is how universities design curricula and assessments so that artificial intelligence augments students’ learning.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

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

Despite the market’s concerns about the longevity of the current chip boom, Samsung still forecasts a major supply-demand deficit to persist into 2027, as growth in agentic AI augments the huge buildout of AI infrastructure.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026

The live aspect of theater augments that feeling of destructive loss.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 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

To investigate how these changes occur, the research team developed an unusual experimental setup that combined augmented reality with real-time brain imaging.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026

Velshi’s on-air analysis will be augmented by an additional feed called VelshiCast, a behind-the-scenes look that will stream on MS NOW’s YouTube channel.

From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2026

The almost 400 interceptors that remain are augmented by a Greek army contingent with a Patriot missile battery and roughly 100 soldiers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

On TV, augmented reality was used to display athlete headshots, win probabilities and projected finishing positions for each event.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

It has been lucrative work, augmented by a group that for years has been in constant need of his services: U.S.-funded Nicaraguan contras across the border.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario

In an interview with AFP last month, Banga said the private capital should be seen as augmenting, not replacing, development financing and that it is needed to address the developing world's vast financial needs.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

Over the past several years, Uber has teamed up with at least 21 companies to work on augmenting its business with autonomous cars, trucks and delivery robots.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 20, 2026

Robotaxi companies are augmenting the real-world videos with training in simulated scenarios that help robotaxis deal with once-in-a-blue-moon cases, said Wang, the Pony AI executive.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2025

Area fire departments have said they are prepositioning resources and augmenting staffing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2025

Diminishing and augmenting chords Wagner may have made his own, but they are all over Liszt’s daring, dark harmony.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall


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