mastery

The combination of an all-around dominant defensive effort, with the Trojans’ usual offensive mastery, offered a glimpse of what USC hopes it can be this season.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

As military leaders, our duty to our forces goes beyond tactical mastery.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

He also wants his team to be intense pressers but have "real mastery in possession".

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

The Constitution is a “liberty document,” and he was responding to a view of the Constitution that saw it as written by powerful men to embody a theory of power and mastery.

From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026

His life’s major achievement was the mastery of all games and how quickly he beat them.

From "All American Boys" by Jason Reynolds

Fuller, speaking of the swash-bucklers, or bullies, of Queen Elizabeth's time, says, 'West Smithfield was formerly called Ruffian's Hall, where such men usually met, casually or otherwise, to try masteries with sword or buckler.

From The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott

To this rough salutation the Duke of Lancaster replied, "He shall keep such masteries here, though you say nay."

From Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British Worthies Volume I by Anonymous

"If a man strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully."

From Humanity in the City by E. H. (Edwin Hubbell) Chapin

And to shew their agility, they tried many masteries vpon the ropes of the ship after our mariners fashion, and appeared to be very strong of their armes, and nimble of their bodies.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. by Richard Hakluyt

But there were elements in the patriotic servant-hood of R. L. Borden, higher than the political masteries of more brilliant men.

From The Masques of Ottawa by Augustus Bridle