under the tutelage of (someone)

idiom

formal
used to say who a person is taught something by
He studied music under the tutelage of his father.

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After graduating from Princeton in 1997, Chavez started his career at Bloomingdale’s, under the tutelage of the legendary Marvin Traub. Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025 Since then, only five other American men have qualified for the Olympic marathon, meaning 37.5 percent of the U.S. marathoners who have competed in Rio, Tokyo and now Paris have come up under the tutelage of Eyestone, himself a former Olympic marathoner in 1988 and 1992. Christopher Kamrani, The Athletic, 9 Aug. 2024 Simitis left parliament in 2009, but not before issuing a prescient warning that financial mismanagement would bring the country under the tutelage of the International Monetary Fund, which would impose harsh austerity. Demetris Nellas, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2025 Penned by journalist Gabe Sherman, The Apprentice follows the trajectory and rise to prominence of young and somewhat naïve rich boy Trump (Stan) under the tutelage of ruthless Republican lawyer and ex-Joe McCarthy bagman Roy Cohn (Jeremy Strong). Dominic Patten, Deadline, 20 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for under the tutelage of (someone) 

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