augur
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Following the announcement of Audi's entry in August 2022, the first steps of the programme did not augur well.
From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026
Broadcast’s shrinking viewership and network production restrictions augur the necessity of a hard restart for the entire industry’s approach to live awards events.
From Salon • Jan. 12, 2026
In her 1958 novel “The Best of Everything,” about a group of young women navigating office life, Rona Jaffe spends a lot of time discussing clothes and how they augur success or failure.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025
There’s no clear evidence yet that the H5N1 strain in U.S. cows has acquired mutations known to make it more transmissible in humans, which could augur a pandemic.
From Science Magazine • Apr. 25, 2024
‘Tell me, son of Pluto,’ the augur hissed, ‘why are you helping the Greeks? What have they ever done for you?’
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
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