auguring

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The AidData report notes that some early attempts to use credit to finance direct investments or acquisitions have hit regulatory walls, auguring further embarrassment and perhaps losses for China as this trend accelerates.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025

Share prices slipped further in Japan and the dollar weakened against the Japanese yen and the euro, while U.S. futures were lower, auguring a weak opening on Wall Street.

From Washington Times • Sep. 30, 2020

It was a vision of a man unstrung, perhaps auguring the darkness ahead.

From The Guardian • Jul. 1, 2017

“There’s a storm coming, Mr. Wayne,” Anne Hathaway’s Selina Kyle tells Bruce Wayne in The Dark Knight Rises, auguring a financial collapse that will impoverish the billionaire playboy and humble corporate Gotham.

From Slate • Jul. 18, 2012

Everything auguring well for our prospects, we encamped to enjoy the good cheer, for which our troubles and privations, during the transit of the Ukawendi forests and jungles, had well prepared us.

From How I Found Livingstone; travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone, by Henry M. Stanley by Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton)