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								grant authorization or clearance for The rock star never authorized this slanderous biography
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								give or delegate power or authority to
 She authorized her assistant to sign the papers
 
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			| 1. Authorize / Past authorized
 2. Authorize / Third Person
 authorizes
 3. Authorize / Present Participle
 authorizing
 
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