master
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The international master title, open to both sexes, ranks higher than Sivanandan's current accolades - the woman grandmaster and woman international master titles.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
Anyway, having to master the intricacies of Amalfi’s HMI is the kind of problem one dreams of having.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
Long Beach has been working toward this vision since it adopted its bicycle master plan 25 years ago, now with mounting urgency as auto-related fatalities rise.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Inouye was a master of earmarks, a practice that allowed lawmakers to insert funding for specific companies by name in the federal budget.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
The master had said it in so many words—my reward for whatever awaited me in this nightmarish new world into which I had enlisted.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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After finishing her masters degree she now shares her recipes online, hoping to help other students in the same position she was in.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
Snyder rented out the house between 2022 and 2025 while he remained in Boston to get his masters degree, which not only covered his entire mortgage payment but also generated a profit each month.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
Clearly, the algorithm masters aren’t too precious about these throwaway texts; their core strategy will always be to embrace whatever seems to work best in the moment.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2026
"We are masters in our own house," the prime minister said on Saturday, just hours after breaking off trade talks with the United States and ordering his negotiators back to Ottawa.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
Pinmei knew immediately these were the masters of the House of Wu.
From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin
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For students who haven’t yet mastered a skill, it can be an obstacle to learning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
Perhaps it was just as well he never mastered Gromit the Cat.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
Pyongyang has mastered sanctions evasion and generated billions of dollars in illicit funds, including having cyberoperatives land remote work at U.S. companies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 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
They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play; they will find that what they have mastered is child’s play.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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After mastering the accumulation phase of your wealth journey, managing the distribution phase can get increasingly tricky.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 25, 2026
Her longevity, he said, is reminiscent of performers of traditional Japanese arts, such as Noh and Kabuki, who spend decades mastering their craft.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
“If you don’t test, how do you know if your students are mastering the concepts?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026
It provides a little aid, a little boost and a little fuel for inspiring some to get more serious about mastering a craft.
From Salon ● Jun. 14, 2026
Partly it was the old pleasure that he always derived from mastering new tools and solving practical problems—working out the angles and planes at which the cedar would or wouldn’t cleave cleanly.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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