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maestro

[mahy-stroh] / ˈmaɪ stroʊ /
NOUN
leader of band
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That mindset has made him a horror maestro for over three decades.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 30, 2026

Statistics from the last Premier League season do not feature Manchester City maestro Rodri as he continued his return from a anterior cruciate ligament injury.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

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

I was the director, the maestro, I called the shots.

From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli

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

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

I have written three operas, and am a member of the Bologna Academy; I underwent a trial where several maestri toiled and labored for four or five hours, whereas I finished my work in one.

From The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Ludwig Nohl

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

Only Swedish pop maestros Abba have breached the seven million mark since, making it an elite club.

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

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

Frank’s own world was composed as a symphony: His “orchestras” united Palestinians and Israelis in Berlin, marginalized students with maestros, modern musicians with compositions across centuries and genres.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 5, 2025

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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