AEGISES Synonyms: 40 Similar and Opposite Words

aegises

noun

variants also egises

plural of aegis

as in safeguards

means or method of defending having no claim to the land under the aegis of the law, the cattle baron decided to claim it by force

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as in auspices

the financial support and general guidance for an undertaking a medical study that was questioned by many because it was done under the aegis of a major pharmaceutical company

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Noun

The new safeguards include requiring law enforcement to label every search with a with a criminal case number, and instituting an automatic review for abnormal search activities, which will trigger proactive lockouts for those users.

— Soo Youn, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2026
Other residents still fear these changes will push the community out if the city does not adopt additional safeguards.

— Gabriela Vidal, CBS News, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of safeguards

Noun

The Russian Defense Ministry said Friday its air defenses overnight intercepted 553 Ukrainian drones over 18 Russian regions, as well as occupied Crimea and the waters of the Azov and the Black seas.

— ABC News, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2026
The trouble starts when saliva gets past the body’s defenses—through a bite or into an open cut, for example.

— Angela Haupt, Time, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of defenses

Noun

But in the days since Haitians suffered one of the biggest losses of immigration protections in recent memory, few customers have stopped by his Fort Lauderdale shop to purchase any of it.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 8 Aug. 2026
Meta plans to strengthen these protections as the glasses become more capable.

— Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of protections

Noun

At the Base of Trees and Shrubs Fences and rock walls aren’t the only structures poison ivy likes to climb.

— Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Aug. 2026
The greybeards will take on the suicide mission of storming the castle walls, erecting ladders, and invading the city while arrows and rocks rain down on them.

— Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of walls

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Shelton cruised from there, mixing his primary weapons in with athletic defense that garnered big reactions from the Montreal crowd and deflated Nakashima even more.

— Ava Wallace, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026
Video snippets captured from two highway patrol officers’ cameras showed the man initially standing at a homeless encampment while holding a hammer and two nearly identical homemade weapons, each of them made with a knife affixed to the end of pole.

— Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2026

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