gain mastery
Example Sentences
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Employees are encouraged to gain mastery over what Kier Eagan describes as the Four Tempers: Woe, Frolic, Dread and Malice.
From Salon • Feb. 15, 2025
The mythology surrounding the blues singer and guitarist Robert Johnson claims he sold his soul to the devil sometime in the 1930s in order to gain mastery over his instrument.
From New York Times • Dec. 3, 2021
"Without such fantasies, the child fails to get to know his monster better, nor is he given suggestions as to how he may gain mastery over it," Bettelheim wrote in the study.
From Salon • Oct. 24, 2020
Procedures are typically created, nurtured, and perfected in a few hospitals, and they spread as the apprentices gain mastery, move to new places, and promulgate their know-how: see one, do one, teach one.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 15, 2019
Lavretsky ceased to follow her movements; but he could not quickly gain mastery over himself.
From A House of Gentlefolk by Garnett, Constance
