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master

[mas-ter, mah-ster] / ˈmæs tər, ˈmɑ stər /






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Griffith Park’s carousel is especially unique in that it also has horses from master carvers Charles Looff and Charles Carmel, considered the finest carousel craftsmen of the era.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

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

The officers have since thwarted roughly 400 master carton smuggling attempts, involving nearly 6,000 pre-labeled shipments of peptides.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Just then the yard master walked up to Grandpa and shook hands with him.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

“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

And there are dynamic comic strips by masters of the genre, such as Hal Foster, Hergé, George Herriman and Winsor McCay.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

When they were finally freed, after a series of slave rebellions, their new masters were poverty, illiteracy, and lack of economic opportunity.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

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

He was influential because he mastered the details of policy that could persuade others.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 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 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

Both ChatGPT and Claude can generate a daily briefing like Google’s, but it requires mastering several of their features at once.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 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

He had spoken of mastering his fear: that was what she’d have to do.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman




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