augury

Example Sentences

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The original Hammer, in a weird augury of the recently unveiled Orange County Museum of Art’s new facility, opened to the public before the building was finished.

From Los Angeles Times

As such, both states' contests have been used in past years as auguries for the following year's midterm elections.

From Salon

Sometimes she seems to practice a kind of augury that involves throwing wildly disparate items into the air, then trying to make sense of them once they land.

From New York Times

The Substack fight in particular might prove an augury of where free expression is headed.

From Washington Post

“I prefer to think about the shutdown as more akin to a spring cleaning than an augury of doom,” says Mike Wallace, author of “Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898.”

From Washington Times