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masterwork

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


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To call his latest film a contemporary masterwork would be true, but there’s also no quantifying the magic McElwee conjures here, no comparing it to anything else.

From Salon Jul. 24, 2026

I confess that at the time I hadn’t read Thoreau’s sandy masterwork.

From The Wall Street Journal May 29, 2026

“Completed in 2019 and designed by Don Ziebell, it is a masterwork combining subtle finishes and exquisite details.”

From MarketWatch Mar. 23, 2026

At its London premiere before coronavirus closed the theatres, The Standard newspaper described it as a "late masterwork... wise, witty and devastatingly sad".

From Barron's Nov. 29, 2025

Here he is in his 1795 masterwork, A Theory of the Earth with Proofs and Illustrations, discussing...something:

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson




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