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Two paintings by impressionist master Pierre-Auguste Renoir, stolen from a museum in southern France and later discovered hidden behind a wall, have sustained slight damage, prosecutors said on Monday.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

Rather than depending on one master switch, multiple neural circuits, hormones, and metabolic signals appear to help determine how age-related changes unfold.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

A third floor comprises the master bedroom, surrounded by three decks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

In December, Cincinnati Customs and Border Protection officers identified a master carton scheme from a Chinese shipper.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

“If you want to,” the yard master said, “you can put him in the tack room. There’s a pan of water there and I’ll see that he gets some scraps from the table.”

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

Yank believes that it is they, the laborers heaving coal for hours amid the broiling heat of the engine room, who are the real masters of the ship.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

“I’ve had multiple phone calls from harbor masters and fire chiefs in Southern California over the past week, saying, ‘Why is the harbor flooding?

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Then there's this, he said: AI models are getting better and better at detecting when they are being tested and might behave differently when they are actually deployed, fooling their masters.

From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026

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

“Oh yes, they were the masters of that trade! They’d travel the river and the creeks, set up camp on sandbanks from village to village, harvest all the clams they could find, and move on.”

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

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

But Taco Bell, led since 2023 by Chief Executive Sean Tresvant, has mastered its branding and digital appeal skillfully enough to overcome these obstacles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

She attempted to rise; she could not have done so without betraying the agitation which mastered her at sight of him, so she fell back upon the stool, only exclaiming, “Why, Robert!”

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

AI can also still be used for mastering songs and, for example, using drum machines and auto tune.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 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

My friends and I prided ourselves on learning how to throw one another to the ground and on mastering the many moves of a champion wrestler.

From "Lost Boy, Lost Girl" by John Bul Dau