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maestro

[mahy-stroh] / ˈmaɪ stroʊ /
NOUN
leader of band
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Thybulle, a 6-foot-5 wing, is a maestro guarding off the ball.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

Whatever your response to that statement - and it could be debated for hours - it cannot be denied that the Argentine maestro is among the best players to ever set foot on a pitch.

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026

It had enlisted an unlikely negotiator: a celebrated Kenyan maestro who had come to enjoy the performance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026

I will miss watching the greatest maestro and savant in the history of basketball, LeBron James.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2026

In December 1511 she made an order for a set of stringed instruments for the Ferrara court which, Holman convincingly suggests, were ‘new design’ violins, invoiced to a maestro Sebastian of Verona.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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

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 Dorothy Canfield Fisher

And this piece of ecclesiastical furniture therefore presented a great field for the taste and ingenuity of the old maestri in wood-carving to exhibit their skill both in design and in execution.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 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 Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani

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

This is not carefully considered maestros thinking out their strategies, six moves ahead of time.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2025

A photo in his shop shows maestros Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma and Bhajan Sopori performing with his instruments.

From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2025

At 56, Aguilar stands as one of the most respected maestros in contemporary Mexican music.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2024

In the classical music world, 80 percent of the information available to the maestros was removed, and lo and behold, the maestros suddenly exercised much better judgment.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell


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