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mastery

[mas-tuh-ree, mah-stuh-] / ˈmæs tə ri, ˈmɑ stə- /


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Ilaiyaraaja's mastery of the form helped disrupt those hierarchies.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026

Whether in the films beloved by the Wu-Tang or the animated sagas Megan favors, characters battle not simply for survival but to achieve mastery.

From Salon • May 31, 2026

As Sam Sacks writes, “Ms. Strout has developed her true mastery in an archetypal mode, writing stories that resemble secular parables or everyman morality dramas.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

Such are the ways of active portfolio management, and of emotional mastery.

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

“The emerging picture from such studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated with being a world-class expert—in anything,” writes the neurologist Daniel Levitin.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell




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