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master

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






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Newly elected lawmaker Ana Elisa Santos, born during Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's first term, is now helping him draw up a social media master plan to nab a fourth mandate.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

Though the questions persist: Is this all part of Holmes’ master plan?

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

The actor plays a master thief who enlists the help of his children—who didn’t even know he existed—to whisk Da Vinci’s masterpiece out of the Louvre.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

On Nov. 13, the California Science Center’s Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center will open to visitors as the final phase of its 33-year-long master plan.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

And how desperately he wanted to see his master!

From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios

Both of these women, especially Tony winner Chenoweth, are masters of stage presence.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 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

The greatest danger facing society isn’t that software will awaken and overthrow its human masters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

Upon arriving at the club’s headquarters on Gogolsky Boulevard, Bobby was first introduced to two young Soviet masters, both in their early twenties: Evgeni Vasukov and Alexander Nikitin.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

These are skills TK students have already mastered, she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

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

The Greeks understood mathematics better than the Egyptians did; once they mastered the Egyptian art of geometry, Greek mathematicians quickly surpassed their teachers.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

Horton said he is focused on informing fans and mastering the fundamentals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

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

It’s a sonic recipe that the two former schoolmates have been mastering since they were under lockdown from COVID.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

It was his duty to wait upon the Lord, and wait he did, forgotten it seemed, standing by the door of the unlit chamber, mastering his own fears as best he could.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien


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