magisterial
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She immediately comes off as a magisterial diagnostician and adept leader with bold plans to modernize the Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Hospital’s emergency care experience.
From Salon • Jan. 8, 2026
Former European Central Bank President Mario Draghi last year produced a magisterial analysis of Europe’s investment and productivity problems.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025
“Sunday,” the culminating hymn of “Sunday in the Park With George,” closes Act 1 to magisterial effect.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2025
He wrote in an autobiography that his first "war decoration" was a "magisterial slap" from his mother, when he came home and told her what he had tried to do.
From BBC • Jan. 7, 2025
“Chaplain,” he announced with magisterial rigidity, “we charge you formally with being Washington Irving and taking capricious and unlicensed liberties in censoring the letters of officers and enlisted men. Are you guilty or innocent?”
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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