mastery
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The range of the characters he played showcased the depth of his acting talent and mastery over his craft.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
That is, developing mastery through hands-on engagement, social modeling, and “vicarious experience,” according to Baker.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
SpaceX’s mastery of building and launching payloads to space has made it the go-to partner for U.S. military and intelligence offices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
The Constitution is a “liberty document,” and he was responding to a view of the Constitution that saw it as written by powerful men to embody a theory of power and mastery.
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026
“Hemme!” the Chancellor snapped.Then he turned to me, “I’m afraid proof of mastery requires more than a simple sympathetic binding.”
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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The late William James, as some readers may remember, placed musical pleasure between sentimental love and sea-sickness as phenomena unaccountable by any value for human survival, in fact masteries, if not paradoxes, of evolution.
From The Beautiful An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics by Vernon Lee
But this is but to try masteries with fortune.
From The Essays of Francis Bacon by Francis Bacon
Stars lit new pages for him; seas Revealed the depths their waves were screening; The ebbs gave up their masteries, The tidal flows confessed their meaning.
From Literary Hearthstones of Dixie by La Salle Corbell Pickett
And if a man strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned except he strive lawfully.—II.
From Humanity in the City by E. H. (Edwin Hubbell) Chapin
Every man that proveth masteries abstaineth from all things.
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