as in ominous
being or showing a sign of evil or calamity to come
this many problems so early in the project is a most inauspicious sign
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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.
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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
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Although the change sounds ominous, the option only worked on three devices: the 4th generation Echo Dot, the Echo Show 10 and the Echo Show 15.—
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The ominous outlook sent FedEx shares down nearly 10 percent in Friday morning trading.—
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The supernatural thriller is set in the Jim Crow South, where twin brothers—each played by Jordan—return home from Chicago with hopes of starting over, only to confront a sinister force that’s been waiting for them.—
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The banal village tunes that Mahler altered into sinister mock vulgarities—did these not recall the raffish klezmer bands, the wandering musicians who played at shtetl weddings?—
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Bell, a Ritchie regular, offers an uncouth but equally menacing counterpoint to Brosnan, a mobster who isn’t pretending that he’s crawled out of the muck.—
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The rapper’s latest includes wistful trap anthems ruminating on his trials and tribulations, as well as menacing drill tracks and more melodic songs tapping into his romantic side to cater to his female fan base — all of which were run by Durk’s legal team before heading to streaming services.—
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“Inauspicious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inauspicious. Accessed 9 Apr. 2025.
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