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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

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

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

From BBC ● May 25, 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

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 Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani

At the city's New Empire Theatre, he orchestrated several "big-band concerts", he wrote, flying in Bombay-based maestros like Ken Mac and Sonny Lobo, and vocalists like Jean Statham and Pamela McCarthy.

From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026

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

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

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2024

What might a young music director mean to an orchestra and to a city when an amazing crop of international and, for the first time, diverse young maestros and maestras is upon us?

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2024

As powerful as ACD’s computer was, however, the maestros of Project Mercury would require even more electronic horsepower for what was to come next.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly


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