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Recent Examples of inauspicious Stocks Struggle To Hold Gains As Traders Watch Key Technical Levels Markets are off to an inauspicious start in 2025. Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025 But this inauspicious start hardly inspires confidence in this bold (yet inadequate) experiment. Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 19 Dec. 2024 While Cena’s official debut seemed designed to strap a rocket to his back, the unofficial second debut of John Cena was much more inauspicious. Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 18 July 2024 From this inauspicious start, things went downhill. Matt Slater, The Athletic, 21 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for inauspicious
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inauspicious
Adjective
  • If the sky turns ominous and thunder can be heard, find a secure place for shelter.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacramento Bee, 13 Mar. 2025
  • The trailer is pretty ominous, hinting at the many disruptions to the relative peace at the Jackson compound that are to come in Season 2.
    Katie Campione, Deadline, 8 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Nature intrudes on the innies’ lives in increasingly sinister ways, as when they’re spirited into the wilderness for a quasi-religious ORTBO, or Outdoor Retreat and Team Building Occurrence.
    Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Lithgow’s character humiliates Rush’s character by forcing him to perform a humiliating act on the dementia doll, reveling in the deeply sinister debauchery.
    Simon Thompson, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Prosecutors, witnesses and judges who were part of Jan. 6 criminal cases were subjected to frequent harassment, menacing and threats, according to testimony and statements made during criminal proceedings in the riot cases.
    Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 2 Mar. 2025
  • Van and Tai cut menacing figures in the wilderness storyline as well.
    Erin Qualey, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2025

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“Inauspicious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inauspicious. Accessed 20 Mar. 2025.

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