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Players normally need three qualifying norms and a rating of at least 2400 to become an international master.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

When master sommelier Bobby Stuckey and chef Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson opened it in 2004, hardly any noteworthy restaurants existed in Boulder.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

Long Beach has been working toward this vision since it adopted its bicycle master plan 25 years ago, now with mounting urgency as auto-related fatalities rise.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Inouye was a master of earmarks, a practice that allowed lawmakers to insert funding for specific companies by name in the federal budget.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

He’d been longest with the master, and he worked like a well-oiled machine.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

In unpacking the new single title, Harper’s Bazaar suggested that maybe modern-day fame is the disease, and Swift the “early guinea pig” who has fought against sexism and re-created her own masters.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

After finishing her masters degree she now shares her recipes online, hoping to help other students in the same position she was in.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

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

"We are masters in our own house," the prime minister said on Saturday, just hours after breaking off trade talks with the United States and ordering his negotiators back to Ottawa.

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

“Surely you know my masters are highly favored by the emperor.”

From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin

The young competitor from Sichuan Province has mastered more than 1,300 Rubik's Cube solving algorithms after vigorous training that involved spending two to three hours a day on the cube over the past year.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

Pyongyang has mastered sanctions evasion and generated billions of dollars in illicit funds, including having cyberoperatives land remote work at U.S. companies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

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

In three years, he said, he mastered the alphabet, but "it took me 22 years to master 650 words" of vocabulary.

From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026

The Greeks understood mathematics better than the Egyptians did; once they mastered the Egyptian art of geometry, Greek mathematicians quickly surpassed their teachers.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

A worker who spent 20 years mastering a craft isn’t wrong to feel concerned.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

After mastering the accumulation phase of your wealth journey, managing the distribution phase can get increasingly tricky.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 25, 2026

“If you don’t test, how do you know if your students are mastering the concepts?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 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

The arm motions required to prevent twisting were complicated enough, but would mastering them enable me to prevent twisting, rolling, and tumbling all at once?

From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins