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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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“Now that they’re here, it’s not a matter of taking out this non-native tree, but thinking how can we augment the space around it now to support life.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

"This temporal window holds profound significance, as attaining such early detection would substantially augment the probability of cure and improved survival," highlight the researchers.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 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

Exactly how much diesel those trucks are already displacing depends on how far they are driven, and whether they augment or replace existing vehicle fleets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

Kendra pressed her hands over her ears, trying to augment the dampening power of the earplugs.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

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

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

Johnny Moreno’s video and projection design artfully augments the production’s imaginative world.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

The assets complement OCBC’s Indonesia franchise, particularly in wealth management, which is attractive in a low-interest-rate environment as it augments recurring income to cushion earnings as Singapore banks face NIM compression.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026

“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

In “Then When,” a sharp rhythm, drummed on the strings, is augmented by percussive hits on different parts of the case, yielding a variety of timbres, and a plucked riff is repeated a few times.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 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

The inversion of an augmented interval is diminished and of a diminished interval is augmented.

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

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

County Fire Department is augmenting staffing by around 100 personnel on Thursday and Friday, according to department spokesperson Pauline McGee.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 29, 2025

His primary focus now, he says, is not on politics but on AI, which he has said is “like electrical current-invisible and augmenting almost every part of our lives.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2025

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

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall


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