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masterly

adjective as in superior

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Like the raconteur at the table, Mr. Winchester is masterly but almost too fluent.

Netherlandish painting is renowned, in part, for its masterly representation of fine fabrics, ornate glass and other sumptuous materials.

Weaver masterly balances both sides of the equation.

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The 20 bills of the three-week Paul Taylor Dance Company season at Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater, through Sunday, include 12 dances by Taylor, the masterly modern-dance choreographer who died in 2018.

“Mask & Bone” by Jamesie Fournier is a slightly overwritten but otherwise masterly unmasking of ordinary family life that reveals ancient secrets and generational trauma of the supernatural kind.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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