Example Sentences

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The FDA also complains some patient tumors were injected more than once, which may have augmented the therapeutic effects.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

The Seahawks believe they have augmented their run game with the addition of second-round draft pick Zach Charbonnet out of UCLA, and Carroll has consistently lauded the team’s tight-end group.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 9, 2023

Increasingly, automated systems, using sensors that measure the position, curvature, alignment and other elements, have augmented the inspections and provided a wealth of data.

From Washington Post • Feb. 23, 2023

As my former colleague Jim Newton reported in his authoritative 2006 biography of Warren, “Justice for All,” someone may have augmented Warren’s manuscript with the word “deeply.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2021

His family have held the estates of Mahmoodabad and Belehree for many generations as zumeendars, or proprietors; but they have augmented them greatly, absorbing into them the estates of their weaker neighbours.*

From A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II by Sleeman, William