Meaning & use
Auguries
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Signs or indications of what will happen in the future; omens.
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The unusually mild winter was taken as one of many auguries of a bountiful harvest.
Investors watched the early sales figures as auguries for the holiday season.
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Derives from the ancient Roman practice of augury, in which priests called augurs interpreted the flight of birds to predict the future.
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