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maestro

[mahy-stroh] / ˈmaɪ stroʊ /
NOUN
leader of band
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I will miss watching the greatest maestro and savant in the history of basketball, LeBron James.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 4, 2026

Brunson became an expert dribbler with both hands, a maestro of footwork and fundamentals.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 2, 2026

Radio 1's dance music maestro Danny Howard tell us backstage.

From BBC May 25, 2026

The director, Antoine Fuqua, a maestro of action thrillers such as “The Equalizer” trilogy, is surprisingly deft with the musical sequences.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 23, 2026

Gravely wounded in World War I, he had survived and returned an even greater maestro.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

Just as much, those maestri would defer to Mr. Drucker’s interpretations of clarinet solos.

From New York Times Dec. 20, 2022

As an example let us take the case of the radio maestri.

From Time Magazine Archive

The art of Priscilla seems to me to satisfy this test much better than that of many of our modern maestri.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 7th, 1920 by Various

It was established in one of the halls of the Lateran, and even the Carlovingian kings obtained from it skilful maestri and organists.

From Pagan and Christian Rome by Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo

For five years now I've given up what I'd like to do, and I've tried, under the best maestri I could find, to make something out of my voice, so to speak.

From The Bent Twig by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield

Donning video headsets and armed with nothing more than a joystick and the Olympics’ fastest fingers, these maestros have the exact same objective as the athlete they’re filming: to be the best in the world.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 13, 2026

He delighted audiences at prestigious venues like Carnegie Hall and collaborated with jazz legends, Western classical orchestras, and Carnatic music maestros.

From BBC Dec. 16, 2024

Speaking of midfield maestros, the mercurial Zidane has been out of management since leaving Barcelona's Clasico rivals Real Madrid in 2021.

From BBC Oct. 28, 2024

The violinist Daniel Froschauer, the Philharmonic’s chairman, has said that today, the ensemble not so secretly has two maestros at the top of its roster: Riccardo Muti and Franz Welser-Möst.

From New York Times Mar. 4, 2024

In the case of the classical musicians’ auditions, the maestros were incapable of making a fair judgment about how well someone was playing if they could see them.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell




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