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Hamdy Abdul-Karim, a ministry spokesman, said the Egyptian authorities had augmented that training with other human rights courses.

From New York Times • Jul. 19, 2010

Hitler had evidently found means to extract some of these hoarded millions from their owners and perhaps had augmented the supply by turning his own mints to counterfeiting.

From Time Magazine Archive

Remaining unmolested 'in the midst of canes and reeds,' their numbers had augmented, and for residence as well as for food a greater area was needed.

From Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines by Morgan, Lewis H.

The overmastering magnetic current which seemed to have drawn him from the very first moment he had seen her now had augmented into almost pain.

From The Reason Why by Glyn, Elinor

The matrix had augmented in volume, and the orifice of the uterine cervix was closed, but there was hypertrophy as if in the second or third month of pregnancy.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)