master
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With the year you’re having, was there a master plan or is it just how things have fallen into place?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Protecting them could require a master course in behavioral science.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
Cho herself prepared by consulting the late master of the form, Frederick Wiseman, who was unabashed about the tension between documentary filmaking’s often radical politics and the privilege required to turn it into a profession.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
But alongside his digital push, the prime minister still has to master one of Westminster's weekly traditions; the political back and forth that is Prime Minister's Questions.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
Our master didn’t even need to guard us, that was why he sent us out on the lake alone.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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Why buy: The couple had just moved to the Seattle area from Santa Barbara, Calif., where Alyssa Kibbe had finished her masters degree in environmental science and management.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
Clearly, the algorithm masters aren’t too precious about these throwaway texts; their core strategy will always be to embrace whatever seems to work best in the moment.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2026
The staff’s “rebellion,” Ms. Rogoyska tells us, lay “not in poisoning the Germans’ soup but in keeping something hidden from their masters, right under their noses: the finest wine, and perhaps a few men, too.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
McNish could not find time to write poetry while studying modern and medieval languages at the University of Cambridge, where she stayed on to gain a masters in economics.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
Even her teachers said she was becoming as good as the old masters.
From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat
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It’s been a long time since we’ve seen anything like that from a press secretary, but no one has mastered the dark art of hucksterism with Leavitt’s aplomb.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026
But the concept was not mastered until NBC’s “Today” introduced “Steals and Deals” in 2010 as an occasional segment that grew over time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026
Despite his age, the pensioner is also partial to a bit of Pilates, and recently mastered the "crow" pose.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
After Foster told him the raw mix had been erased, Davis took the digital audio tape copy he had kept and had it mastered and released to radio.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
The knights of his house lay slain about him, or else mastered by the madness of their steeds were borne far away.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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It’s a sonic recipe that the two former schoolmates have been mastering since they were under lockdown from COVID.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
After mastering the accumulation phase of your wealth journey, managing the distribution phase can get increasingly tricky.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 25, 2026
It provides a little aid, a little boost and a little fuel for inspiring some to get more serious about mastering a craft.
From Salon ● Jun. 14, 2026
"It's God's gift. Learning and mastering musical instruments came to him naturally," Amaran said.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026
Determined not to let his frailty and his stature stand in his way, in high school he went out for every sport he could think of, mastering none but playing all of them tenaciously.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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