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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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Teleperformance, the world's largest call centre operator and one of the Philippines' biggest private employers, has said AI offers an opportunity to augment rather than replace its workforce.

From BBC Aug. 4, 2026

When it steps outside its own borders, the country’s idealism can often augment its realism.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

None of them augment it with their own.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 6, 2026

Watching egocentrism augment in real time, on a mass scale, is as heartbreaking and destabilizing as death itself.

From Salon Jun. 13, 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

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

Everlab’s platform ingests and organizes documents and data from doctors, specialists and pathologists, compiling patient records that it augments with real-time data from users’ existing wearable devices.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 16, 2026

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

From MarketWatch May 18, 2026

In a funky rendition of “Oh Happy Day,” for instance, the director augments the Sweet Inspirations’ original backing vocals with the newly recorded voices of a gospel choir from Nashville.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 24, 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

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

“The same AI-generated or augmented image can be a legitimate creative choice in one context and a trust violation in another.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

Smart glasses are becoming more popular as augmented reality and artificial intelligence tech becomes more advanced.

From Barron's Jun. 23, 2026

“Where I stay careful is in not letting the technology become the subject. The augmented reality by Snap’s AR Studio adds to the project, doesn’t take you away from it.”

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 20, 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

You’ve never read a bird book like this one, written and illustrated in a spirit of determined awareness, augmenting facts with spirited play.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 2026

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

From MarketWatch Dec. 29, 2025

Blessedly, Season 3 makes room for glimpses into the locals’ lives beyond the hotel, augmenting the personal stakes for workers beyond the usual administrative staff whose prickliness co-stars in previous seasons.

From Salon Feb. 16, 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

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

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall




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