masterstroke

Example Sentences

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His decision to start Kennedy in place of League Cup winner Marley Watkins then bringing on the striker and Lyons as Celtic tired proved to be masterstrokes.

From BBC • Dec. 10, 2023

Then the music came to life, and the models emerged to play their role in Lagerfeld’s final masterstrokes.

From Washington Post • Mar. 5, 2019

The first of Ms. Roundtree’s defensive masterstrokes came as she combed police reports about the crime.

From New York Times • May 21, 2018

That makes Apple’s HomePod advertisement a clever Apple Music ad in disguise, one of Apple’s latest masterstrokes of marketing.

From The Verge • Mar. 7, 2018

This state of things is depicted with a few masterstrokes in a popular work in Chinese entitled "Strange Stories of an Idle Student."

From The Awakening of China by Martin, W. A. P. (William Alexander Parsons)