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auspices
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auspices as in:  under the auspices of

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  • The restaurant had been refurbished, the food now under the auspices of a television chef whose face appeared on posters around the racecourse.†  (source)
  • That was how it had started; that was how Hobart and Blackwell, after languishing for years, had begun under my beady auspices to turn a profit.†  (source)
  • Have you been doing these kayak trips under the auspices of the CIA?†  (source)
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  • You shall rule this world together under the auspices of the Titans.†  (source)
  • "Auspice, Maria!" he murmured as he turned his back on these familiar things.†  (source)
  • I have already told the story of my one ill-auspiced venture Hillside.†  (source)
    auspiced = favored
  • In Australia, the senior registrar works under the auspices of the con sultant and he, as the top man, gets the credit for successful surgery, no matter who actually performs it.†  (source)
  • AUSPICE MARIA!†  (source)
  • Under the auspices of the man I had boarded the bus with, I was able to pass some of the roadblocks for free.†  (source)
  • When he was otherwise motionless, the thumb of his right hand would sometimes gently touch a ring on his forefinger, an amethyst with an inscription cut upon it, Auspice Maria,—Father Vaillant's signet-ring; and then he was almost certainly thinking of Joseph; of their life together here, in this room ...in Ohio beside the Great Lakes ...as young men in Paris ...as boys at Montferrand.†  (source)
  • Built in 1927 under the auspices of Eleanor Roosevelt, it was the first federal women's prison, intended as a reformatory.†  (source)
  • I insist upon your taking the whole, and I beg only to attend you in the quality of your servant; Nil desperandum est Teucro duce et auspice Teucro": but to this generous proposal concerning the money, Jones would by no means submit.†  (source)
  • In my own case, studying under the auspices of the University of London was a mixed blessing.†  (source)
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